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 various reflector type satellites typically used for geodesy and atmospheric measurements.
Passive satellites
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Calsphere
- Calsphere 1A
- Calsphere 2
- Calsphere 3
- Calsphere 4
- Calsphere 4A
- Calsphere 5 [1]
- Dragsphere 1 [2]
- Dragsphere 2 [2]
- Enoch [3]
- Explorer 9
- GFZ-1 [4]
- Humanity Star [5]
- LCS-1 [6]
- PAGEOS
- PAMS-STU, see STS-77 [7]
- POPACS [8]
- Reflector [9]
- PasComSat
- Rigid Sphere 1 (AVL-802H) [10]
- Rigid Sphere 2 [11]
- Sfera [12]
Dedicated laser ranging satellites
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Several dedicated laser ranging satellites were put in orbit: [13]
Mostly passive satellites
- Starshine 3, see Athena I [24]
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Echo project
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- Echo 1 (Echo 1A)
- Echo 2
- Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster
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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)
- Tianwen-1
See also
References
- ↑ "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 .
- ↑ "Enoch - Gunter's Space Page" . space.skyrocket.de . Retrieved 2020-07-19 .
- ↑ "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 .
- ↑ "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 .
- ↑ "International Laser Ranging Service" . Ilrs.gsfc.nasa.gov . Retrieved 2022-08-20 .
- ↑ Kucharski, Daniel; Kirchner, Georg; Otsubo, Toshimichi; Kunimori, Hiroo; Jah, Moriba K.; Koidl, Franz; Bennett, James C.; Lim, Hyung-Chul; Wang, Peiyuan; Steindorfer, Michael; Sośnica, Krzysztof (August 2019). "Hypertemporal photometric measurement of spaceborne mirrors specular reflectivity for Laser Time Transfer link model". Advances in Space Research . 64 (4): 957–963. Bibcode : 2019AdSpR..64..957K . doi : 10.1016/j.asr.2019.05.030 . S2CID 191188229 .
- ↑ Sośnica, Krzysztof; Jäggi, Adrian; Meyer, Ulrich; Thaller, Daniela; Beutler, Gerhard; Arnold, Daniel; Dach, Rolf (October 2015). "Time variable Earth's gravity field from SLR satellites" . Journal of Geodesy . 89 (10): 945–960. Bibcode : 2015JGeod..89..945S . doi : 10.1007/s00190-015-0825-1 .
- ↑ "Calsphere 1, 2, 3, 4" . Space.skyrocket.de . Retrieved 2016-02-13 .
- ↑ Lindborg, Christina. "Etalon" . Russia and Navigation Systems . Federation of American Scientists . Retrieved 10 November 2012 .
- ↑ Sośnica, Krzysztof (1 August 2015). "LAGEOS Sensitivity to Ocean Tides" . Acta Geophysica . 63 (4): 1181–1203. Bibcode : 2015AcGeo..63.1181S . 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. Bibcode : 2015ArtSa..50....1S . doi : 10.1515/arsa-2015-0001 .
- ↑ "Larets" .
- ↑ "International Laser Ranging Service" . Ilrs.gsfc.nasa.gov . Retrieved 2022-08-20 .
- ↑ "NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details" . Nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov . 1999-06-05 . Retrieved 2016-02-13 .
- ↑ Sośnica, Krzysztof; Jäggi, Adrian; Thaller, Daniela; Beutler, Gerhard; Dach, Rolf (August 2014). "Contribution of Starlette, Stella, and AJISAI to the SLR-derived global reference frame" (PDF) . Journal of Geodesy . 88 (8): 789–804. Bibcode : 2014JGeod..88..789S . doi : 10.1007/s00190-014-0722-z . S2CID 121163799 .
- ↑ "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 .