List of passive satellites

Starshine 2 deployed into space from Space Shuttle Endeavour, in 2001

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List of passive satellites:

• Ajisai, Experimental Geodetic Payload
• Calsphere satellites^[1]
  • Calsphere
  • Calsphere 1A
  • Calsphere 2
  • Calsphere 3
  • Calsphere 4
  • Calsphere 4A
  • Calsphere 5^[2]
• Dragsphere 1^[3]
• Dragsphere 2^[3]
• Etalon^[4]
  • Kosmos 1989
  • Kosmos 2024
• Explorer 9
• GFZ-1^[5]
• LAGEOS
  • LAGEOS 1
  • LAGEOS 2, see STS-52
• LARES
• LCS-1^[6]
• PAGEOS
• PAMS-STU, see STS-77^[7]
• Reflector^[8]
• PasComSat
• Rigid Sphere 1 (AVL-802H)^[9]
• Rigid Sphere 2^[10]
• Sfera^[11]
• Starshine
  • Starshine 1,^[12] see STS-96
  • Starshine 2, see STS-108
• Starlette^[13]
• Stella^[14]
• WESTPAC 1^[15]

Mostly passive

• Starshine 3, see Athena I^[16]
• Echo project^[17]
  • Echo 1 (Echo 1A)
  • Echo 2

See also

• List of laser ranging satellites
• Lunar Laser Ranging experiment
• Balloon satellites
• Satellite geodesy

References

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2. "NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details". Nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. 1971-02-17. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
3. "Dragsphere 1, 2". Space.skyrocket.de. 2014-09-19. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
4. Lindborg, Christina. "Etalon". Russia and Navigation Systems. Federation of American Scientists. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
5. "NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details". Nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. 1995-04-19. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
6. "LCS 1". NSSDCA Master Catalog. NSSDCA. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
7. "NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details". Nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. 1996-05-22. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
8. "NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details". Nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. 2001-12-10. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
9. "NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details". Nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. 1971-08-07. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
10. "NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details". Nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. 1971-08-07. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
11. "Sfera-53 (TEKh-44, Vektor-T)". Space.skyrocket.de. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
12. "NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details". Nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. 1999-06-05. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
13. "NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details". Nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. 1975-02-06. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
14. "NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details". Nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. 1993-09-26. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
15. "WESTPAC 1". Space.skyrocket.de. 1995-12-02. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
16. "Starshine 3 (Starshine-OSCAR 43, SO 43)". Space.skyrocket.de. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
17. Donald H. Martin. "Communication Satellites". Books.google.com. p. 4. Retrieved 2016-02-13.