List of passive satellites
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
Starshine 2 deployed into space from Space Shuttle Endeavour, in 2001
PAGEOS test
Passive satellites
- Ajisai, Experimental Geodetic Payload[1]
- Beacon-C, Beacon Explorer C, BE-C, Explorer 27[2]
- BLITS[3]
- Calsphere satellites[4]
- Calsphere
- Calsphere 1A
- Calsphere 2
- Calsphere 3
- Calsphere 4
- Calsphere 4A
- Calsphere 5[5]
- Dragsphere 1[6]
- Dragsphere 2[6]
- Enoch[7]
- Etalon[8]
- Kosmos 1989
- Kosmos 2024
- Explorer 9
- GFZ-1[9]
- Humanity Star[10]
- LAGEOS[11]
- LAGEOS 1
- LAGEOS 2, see STS-52
- LARES[12]
- Larets[13][14]
- LCS-1[15]
- PAGEOS
- PAMS-STU, see STS-77[16]
- POPACS[17]
- Reflector[18]
- PasComSat
- Rigid Sphere 1 (AVL-802H)[19]
- Rigid Sphere 2[20]
- Sfera[21]
- Starshine
- Starlette[23]
- Stella[24]
- WESTPAC 1[25]
Mostly passive satellites
- Starshine 3, see Athena I[26]
- Echo project[27]
- Echo 1 (Echo 1A)
- Echo 2
- Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster
See also
References
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- "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.
- "Dragsphere 1, 2". Space.skyrocket.de. 2014-09-19. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
- "Enoch - Gunter's Space Page". space.skyrocket.de. Retrieved 2020-07-19.
- 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.
- Sośnica, Krzysztof (1 August 2015). "LAGEOS Sensitivity to Ocean Tides". Acta Geophysica. 63 (4): 1181–1203. doi:10.1515/acgeo-2015-0032.
- Krzysztof, Sośnica (1 March 2015). "Impact of the Atmospheric Drag on Starlette, Stella, Ajisai, and Lares Orbits". Artificial Satellites. 50 (1): 1–18. doi:10.1515/arsa-2015-0001.
- "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.
- "POPACS (Polar Orbiting Passive Atmospheric Calibration Sphere)". directory.eoportal.org. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
- "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 (2000). Communication Satellites. AIAA. p. 4. ISBN 978-1-884989-09-4.
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