List of passive satellites
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List of passive satellites is a listing of inert or mostly inert satellites, mainly of the Earth. This includes various reflector type satellites typically used for geodesy and atmospheric measurements.
Passive satellites
- Calsphere
- Calsphere 1A
- Calsphere 2
- Calsphere 3
- Calsphere 4
- Calsphere 4A
- Calsphere 5[1]
- Dragsphere 1[2]
- Dragsphere 2[2]
- Enoch[3]
- Explorer 9
- GFZ-1[4]
- Humanity Star[5]
- LCS-1[6]
- PAGEOS
- PAMS-STU, see STS-77[7]
- POPACS[8]
- Reflector[9]
- PasComSat
- Rigid Sphere 1 (AVL-802H)[10]
- Rigid Sphere 2[11]
- Sfera[12]
Dedicated laser ranging satellites
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Mostly passive satellites
- Starshine 3[13]
- Echo project[14]
- Echo 1 (Echo 1A)
- Echo 2
- Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster
- Hayabusa2
- Deployable camera 3 (DCAM3)
- Small Carry-On Impactor (SCI)
- Target Marker B
- Target Marker A
- Target Marker E (Explorer)
- Target Marker C (Sputnik/Спутник)
- Tianwen-1
See also
References
- ^ "NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details". Nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. 1971-02-17. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
- ^ 2.0 2.1 "Dragsphere 1, 2". Space.skyrocket.de. 2014-09-19. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
- ^ "Enoch - Gunter's Space Page". space.skyrocket.de. Retrieved 2020-07-19.
- ^ "NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details". Nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. 1995-04-19. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
- ^ "Space-Spotting: How To See Humanity Star and Other Objects in Orbit". Popular Mechanics. 2018-01-26. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
- ^ "LCS 1". NSSDCA Master Catalog. NSSDCA. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
- ^ "NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details". Nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. 1996-05-22. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
- ^ "POPACS (Polar Orbiting Passive Atmospheric Calibration Sphere)". directory.eoportal.org. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
- ^ "NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details". Nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. 2001-12-10. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
- ^ "NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details". Nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. 1971-08-07. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
- ^ "NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details". Nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. 1971-08-07. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
- ^ "Sfera-53 (TEKh-44, Vektor-T)". Space.skyrocket.de. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
- ^ "Starshine 3 (Starshine-OSCAR 43, SO 43)". Space.skyrocket.de. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
- ^ Donald H. Martin (2000). Communication Satellites. AIAA. p. 4. ISBN 978-1-884989-09-4.