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 typically various reflector type satellites used for geodesy and atmospheric measurements
Passive satellites
- Ajisai, Experimental Geodetic Payload
- Beacon-C, Beacon Explorer C, BE-C, Explorer 27
- BLITS[1]
- Calsphere satellites[2]
- Calsphere
- Calsphere 1A
- Calsphere 2
- Calsphere 3
- Calsphere 4
- Calsphere 4A
- Calsphere 5[3]
- Dragsphere 1[4]
- Dragsphere 2[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]
- Reflector[12]
- PasComSat
- Rigid Sphere 1 (AVL-802H)[13]
- Rigid Sphere 2[14]
- Sfera[15]
- Starshine
- Starlette[17]
- Stella[18]
- WESTPAC 1[19]
Mostly passive satellites
- Starshine 3, see Athena I[20]
- Echo project[21]
- Echo 1 (Echo 1A)
- Echo 2
- Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster
See also
References
- ↑ "BLITS". ilrs.cddis.eosdis.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2018-04-16.
- ↑ "Calsphere 1, 2, 3, 4". Space.skyrocket.de. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
- ↑ "NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details". Nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. 1971-02-17. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
- 1 2 "Dragsphere 1, 2". Space.skyrocket.de. 2014-09-19. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
- ↑ Lindborg, Christina. "Etalon". Russia and Navigation Systems. Federation of American Scientists. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "Larets". space.skyrocket.de. Retrieved 2018-04-16.
- ↑ "Larets". ilrs.cddis.eosdis.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2018-04-16.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details". Nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. 1999-06-05. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
- ↑ "NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details". Nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. 1975-02-06. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
- ↑ "NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details". Nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. 1993-09-26. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
- ↑ "WESTPAC 1". Space.skyrocket.de. 1995-12-02. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
- ↑ "Starshine 3 (Starshine-OSCAR 43, SO 43)". Space.skyrocket.de. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
- ↑ Donald H. Martin. "Communication Satellites". Books.google.com. p. 4. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
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