List of passive satellites

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.

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

Dedicated laser ranging satellites
This section is an excerpt from Satellite laser ranging § List of passive satellites.[edit]

Several dedicated laser ranging satellites were put in orbit:[13]

Mostly passive satellites

See also

References
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