List of passive satellites

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

References