Passive communications satellite
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Category of spacecraft.
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Echo American passive communications satellite. The Echo satellites were NASA's first experimental communications satellite project.
Westford Needles American passive communications satellite. In an attempt to lay a radio-reflective ring around the world, small metal dipole needles were allowed to sublimate out of a matrix. Experimental, communication, passice satellite for MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA. Launched 1961-1963.
Echo 2 American passive communications satellite. Passive communications satellite; balloon; 1st joint US/USSR space mission.
