List of passive satellites

List of passive satellites is a listing of inert or mostly inert satellites, mainly of the Earth. This includes typically various reflector type satellites used for geodesy and atmospheric measurements

Starshine 2 deployed into space from Space Shuttle Endeavour, in 2001

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Passive satellites

• Ajisai, Experimental Geodetic Payload
• Beacon-C, Beacon Explorer C, BE-C, Explorer 27
• Calsphere satellites[1]
  • Calsphere
  • Calsphere 1A
  • Calsphere 2
  • Calsphere 3
  • Calsphere 4
  • Calsphere 4A
  • Calsphere 5[2]
• Dragsphere 1[3]
• Dragsphere 2[3]
• Enoch[4]
• Etalon[5]
  • Kosmos 1989
  • Kosmos 2024
• Explorer 9
• GFZ-1[6]
• Humanity Star[7]
• LAGEOS
  • LAGEOS 1
  • LAGEOS 2, see STS-52
• LARES
• Larets[8][9]
• LCS-1[10]
• PAGEOS
• PAMS-STU, see STS-77[11]
• POPACS[12]
• Reflector[13]
• PasComSat
• Rigid Sphere 1 (AVL-802H)[14]
• Rigid Sphere 2[15]
• Sfera[16]
• Starshine
  • Starshine 1,[17] see STS-96
  • Starshine 2, see STS-108
• Starlette[18]
• Stella[19]
• WESTPAC 1[20]

Mostly passive satellites

• Starshine 3, see Athena I[21]
• Echo project[22]
  • Echo 1 (Echo 1A)
  • Echo 2
• Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster

See also

• List of laser ranging satellites
• Lunar Laser Ranging experiment
• Balloon satellites
• Satellite geodesy

References

1. "Calsphere 1, 2, 3, 4". Space.skyrocket.de. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
2. "NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details". Nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. 1971-02-17. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
3. "Dragsphere 1, 2". Space.skyrocket.de. 2014-09-19. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
4. "Enoch - Gunter's Space Page". space.skyrocket.de. Retrieved 2020-07-19.
5. Lindborg, Christina. "Etalon". Russia and Navigation Systems. Federation of American Scientists. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
6. "NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details". Nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. 1995-04-19. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
7. "Space-Spotting: How To See Humanity Star and Other Objects in Orbit". Popular Mechanics. 2018-01-26. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
8. "Larets". space.skyrocket.de. Retrieved 2018-04-16.
9. "Larets". ilrs.cddis.eosdis.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2018-04-16.
10. "LCS 1". NSSDCA Master Catalog. NSSDCA. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
11. "NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details". Nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. 1996-05-22. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
12. "POPACS (Polar Orbiting Passive Atmospheric Calibration Sphere)". directory.eoportal.org. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
13. "NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details". Nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. 2001-12-10. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
14. "NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details". Nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. 1971-08-07. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
15. "NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details". Nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. 1971-08-07. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
16. "Sfera-53 (TEKh-44, Vektor-T)". Space.skyrocket.de. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
17. "NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details". Nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. 1999-06-05. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
18. "NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details". Nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. 1975-02-06. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
19. "NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details". Nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. 1993-09-26. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
20. "WESTPAC 1". Space.skyrocket.de. 1995-12-02. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
21. "Starshine 3 (Starshine-OSCAR 43, SO 43)". Space.skyrocket.de. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
22. Donald H. Martin (2000). Communication Satellites. AIAA. p. 4. ISBN 978-1-884989-09-4.