This is a listing of passive satellites – 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
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 Tianwen-1 Deployable Camera 1 Tianwen-1 Remote Camera Tianwen-1 Deployable Camera 2
See also List of laser ranging satellites Lunar Laser Ranging experiment Balloon satellites Satellite geodesy
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