Technology Demonstration Spacecraft

Ohsumi

Vehicle

first Japanese satellite put into orbit

Astérix

Vehicle

French satellite

LISA Pathfinder

Vehicle

ESA spacecraft that was launched on December 3, 2015

Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2

Vehicle

North Korean satellite, lost in a launch failure

Cosmos 1

Vehicle

solar sail project

A-102

Vehicle

1964 Saturn I failure

PROBA-2

Vehicle

ESA technology demonstration satellite

PROBA-1

Vehicle

ESA Earth observation satellite

Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2

Vehicle

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

MaSat-1

Vehicle

Satellite

WINDS

Vehicle

Japanese communication satellite

NEE-01 Pegaso

Vehicle

Ecuadorian satellite

Space Capsule Recovery Experiment

Vehicle

Indian experimental reentry capsule

SNAP-10A

Vehicle

experimental nuclear reactor launched into space in 1965

Chollian

Vehicle

communications satellite

Genesis I

Place

experimental space habitat, launched in 2006

Gaganyaan-1

Event

Indian spaceflight, planned 2024

Crew Module Atmospheric Re-entry Experiment

Vehicle

experimental test space vehicle

Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator

Vehicle

NASA vehicle which tested an inflatable reentry system

PoSAT-1

Vehicle

Portuguese satellite

Olympus-1

Vehicle

communications satellite

OICETS

Vehicle

Japanese communications demonstration satellite

GIOVE-A

Vehicle

testbed satellite for the Galileo navigation system

Kiku-7 Chaser

Vehicle

Japanese rendezvous demonstration satellite

F-1

Vehicle

Vietnamese satellite

Space Technology 5

Vehicle

Experimental space technologies

NanoSail-D

Vehicle

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

Applications Technology Satellite 6

Vehicle

former NASA communications and weather satellite

CASSIOPE

Vehicle

Canadian Space Agency multi-mission satellite

Prisma

Vehicle

Swedish satellite project

GeneSat-1

Vehicle

NASA's nanosatellite

Tansei

Vehicle

Japanese artificial satellite

Jugnu

Vehicle

Indian technology demonstration and remote sensing satellite

Kosmos 2499

Vehicle

Russian satellite

BIRD

Vehicle

German infrared detection satellite

USA-165

Vehicle

military satellite

NEE-02 Krysaor

Vehicle

Ecuadorian satellite

BRITE-Austria

Vehicle

Austrian nanosatellite observatory

Inflatable Antenna Experiment

Vehicle

inflatable satellite experiment launched by STS-77

Rapid Pathfinder Prototype

Vehicle

American technology demonstration satellite

KickSat

Thing

citizen science project

Genesis II

Place

experimental space habitat, launched in 2007

TET-1

Vehicle

microsatellite operated by the German Aerospace Center

TurkSat-3USat

Vehicle

Turkish communications nanosatellite

Kiku-8

Vehicle

Japanese communications demonstration satellite

X-Sat

Vehicle

Singaporean microsatellite

BHUTAN-1

Vehicle

First Bhutanese satellite

BeeSat-1

Vehicle

German satellite

OPTOS

Vehicle

technology demonstration satellite

Nimbus 7

Vehicle

U.S. meteorological satellite

Raiko

Vehicle

Japanese satellite

Nimbus 1

Vehicle

U.S. meteorological satellite

XPNAV-1

Vehicle

Stanford Audiophonic Photographic Infrared Experiment

Thing

amateur radio satellite

Niwaka

Vehicle

Japanese CubeSat satellite

PicoDragon

Vehicle

39413

XSS 10

Vehicle

micro-spacecraft developed by U.S. Air Force

Kiku-1

Vehicle

Japanese technology demonstration satellite

Shin'en

Vehicle

Japanese student spacecraft

TV-D1

Event

2023 Indian space vehicle test flight