Technology Demonstration Spacecraft

Vanguard 1

Vehicle

fourth artificial Earth orbital satellite

ESTCube-1

Vehicle

Estonian nanosatellite

Dong Fang Hong I

Vehicle

first satellite launched by China

Ohsumi

Vehicle

first Japanese satellite put into orbit

Astérix

Vehicle

French satellite

LISA Pathfinder

Vehicle

ESA spacecraft that was launched on December 3, 2015

Cosmos 1

Vehicle

solar sail project

Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2

Vehicle

North Korean satellite, lost in a launch failure

A-102

Vehicle

1964 Saturn I failure

PROBA-2

Vehicle

ESA technology demonstration satellite

PROBA-1

Vehicle

ESA Earth observation satellite

Artemis

Vehicle

decommissioned ESA communication satellite

Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2

Vehicle

North Korean Earth observation satellite; first satellite orbited by North Korea

NEE-01 Pegaso

Vehicle

Ecuadorian satellite

MaSat-1

Vehicle

Satellite

WINDS

Vehicle

Japanese communication satellite

Space Capsule Recovery Experiment

Vehicle

Indian experimental reentry capsule

SNAP-10A

Vehicle

experimental nuclear reactor launched into space in 1965

Crew Module Atmospheric Re-entry Experiment

Vehicle

experimental test space vehicle

Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator

Vehicle

NASA vehicle which tested an inflatable reentry system

Chollian

Vehicle

communications satellite

Gaganyaan-1

Event

Indian spaceflight, planned 2024

Genesis I

Place

experimental space habitat, launched in 2006

PoSAT-1

Vehicle

Portuguese satellite

Kiku-7 Chaser

Vehicle

Japanese rendezvous demonstration satellite

OICETS

Vehicle

Japanese communications demonstration satellite

GIOVE-A

Vehicle

testbed satellite for the Galileo navigation system

F-1

Vehicle

Vietnamese satellite

Olympus-1

Vehicle

communications satellite

Applications Technology Satellite 6

Vehicle

former NASA communications and weather satellite

GeneSat-1

Vehicle

NASA's nanosatellite

Prisma

Vehicle

Swedish satellite project

Space Technology 5

Vehicle

Experimental space technologies

NanoSail-D

Vehicle

NASA CubeSat designed to test deployment of solar sails, lost in a launch failure

CASSIOPE

Vehicle

Canadian Space Agency multi-mission satellite

Tansei

Vehicle

Japanese artificial satellite

ARGOS

Vehicle

satellite

Jugnu

Vehicle

Indian technology demonstration and remote sensing satellite

OREX

Vehicle

Japanese re-entry demonstrator prototype

Kosmos 2499

Vehicle

Russian satellite

KickSat

Thing

citizen science project

TurkSat-3USat

Vehicle

Turkish communications nanosatellite

ESTCube-2

Vehicle

Estonian nanosatellite which failed to deploy after launch

Rapid Pathfinder Prototype

Vehicle

American technology demonstration satellite

USA-165

Vehicle

military satellite

BRITE-Austria

Vehicle

Austrian nanosatellite observatory

NEE-02 Krysaor

Vehicle

Ecuadorian satellite

BIRD

Vehicle

German infrared detection satellite

Inflatable Antenna Experiment

Vehicle

inflatable satellite experiment launched by STS-77

TET-1

Vehicle

microsatellite operated by the German Aerospace Center

Genesis II

Place

experimental space habitat, launched in 2007

Nimbus 1

Vehicle

U.S. meteorological satellite

Stanford Audiophonic Photographic Infrared Experiment

Thing

amateur radio satellite

XSS 10

Vehicle

micro-spacecraft developed by U.S. Air Force

Niwaka

Vehicle

Japanese CubeSat satellite

Raiko

Vehicle

Japanese satellite

BeeSat-1

Vehicle

German satellite

Nimbus 7

Vehicle

U.S. meteorological satellite

PicoDragon

Vehicle

39413

X-Sat

Vehicle

Singaporean microsatellite