List of passive satellites

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
  • Dragsphere 1
  • Dragsphere 2
  • Enoch
  • Explorer 9
  • GFZ-1
  • Humanity Star
  • LCS-1
  • PAGEOS
  • PAMS-STU, see STS-77
  • POPACS
  • Reflector
  • PasComSat
  • Rigid Sphere 1 (AVL-802H)
  • Rigid Sphere 2
  • Sfera

Dedicated laser ranging satellites

Several dedicated laser ranging satellites were put in orbit:

  • Ajisai (Experimental Geodetic Payload)
  • BLITS
  • Calsphere satellites
  • Etalon
    • Kosmos 1989
    • Kosmos 2024
  • LAGEOS
  • LARES
    • LARES 1
    • LARES 2
  • Larets
  • STARSHINE
    • Starshine 1, see STS-96
    • Starshine 2, see STS-108
  • Starlette and Stella

Mostly passive satellites

  • Echo project
    • Echo 1 (Echo 1A)
    • Echo 2
  • Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster
  • Starshine 3
  • 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)
  • IKAROS
    • Deployable camera 1 (DCAM1)
    • Deployable camera 2 (DCAM2)
  • SpaceTuna1
  • Tianwen-1

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