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{{cite web|url=https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1971-012E |title=NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details |website=Nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov |date=1971-02-17 |accessdate=2016-02-13}}
- Dragsphere 1{{cite web|url=http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/dragsphere-1.htm |title=Dragsphere 1, 2 |website=Space.skyrocket.de |date=2014-09-19 |accessdate=2016-02-13}}
- Dragsphere 2
- Enoch{{cite web|url=https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/enoch.htm |title=Enoch - Gunter's Space Page |website=space.skyrocket.de |accessdate=2020-07-19}}
- Explorer 9
- GFZ-1{{cite web|url=https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1986-017J |title=NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details |website=Nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov |date=1995-04-19 |accessdate=2016-02-13}}
- Humanity Star{{Cite news|url=http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/satellites/a15892673/satellites-orbit-naked-eye-humanity-star/|title=Space-Spotting: How To See Humanity Star and Other Objects in Orbit|date=2018-01-26|work=Popular Mechanics|access-date=2018-01-27|language=en-US}}
- LCS-1{{cite web|title=LCS 1|url=https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1965-034C|website=NSSDCA Master Catalog|publisher=NSSDCA|accessdate=16 June 2016}}
- PAGEOS
- PAMS-STU, see STS-77{{cite web|url=https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1996-032D |title=NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details |website=Nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov |date=1996-05-22 |accessdate=2016-02-13}}
- POPACS{{cite web|url=https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/p/popacs |title=POPACS (Polar Orbiting Passive Atmospheric Calibration Sphere) |website=directory.eoportal.org |accessdate=2020-07-18}}
- Reflector{{cite web|url=https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=2001-056E |title=NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details |website=Nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov |date=2001-12-10 |accessdate=2016-02-13}}
- PasComSat
- Rigid Sphere 1 (AVL-802H){{cite web|url=https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1971-067P |title=NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details |website=Nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov |date=1971-08-07 |accessdate=2016-02-13}}
- Rigid Sphere 2{{cite web|url=https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1971-067E |title=NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details |website=Nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov |date=1971-08-07 |accessdate=2016-02-13}}
- Sfera{{cite web|url=http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/sfera-53.htm |title=Sfera-53 (TEKh-44, Vektor-T) |website=Space.skyrocket.de |date= |accessdate=2016-02-13}}
=Dedicated laser ranging satellites=
{{excerpt|Satellite laser ranging#List of passive satellites}}
Mostly passive satellites
- Starshine 3{{cite web|url=http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/starshine-3.htm |title=Starshine 3 (Starshine-OSCAR 43, SO 43) |website=Space.skyrocket.de |date= |accessdate=2016-02-13}}
- Echo project{{cite book|author=Donald H. Martin|title=Communication Satellites|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_azf94TByF8C&pg=PA4|year=2000|publisher=AIAA|isbn=978-1-884989-09-4|page=4}}
- 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
- Tianwen-1 Deployable Camera 1
- Tianwen-1 Remote Camera
- Tianwen-1 Deployable Camera 2