List of passive satellites is a listing of inert or mostly inert

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s, mainly of the

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. 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 *

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* LCS-1 *

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*PAMS-STU, see

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*POPACS *Reflector * PasComSat *Rigid Sphere 1 (AVL-802H) *Rigid Sphere 2 *

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Dedicated laser ranging satellites

Mostly passive satellites

*Starshine 3, see Athena I * Echo project **Echo 1 (Echo 1A) **Echo 2 *

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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) *

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Deployable Camera 1 **

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Deployable Camera 2

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Passive satellites

Dedicated laser ranging satellites

Mostly passive satellites

See also

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