List of Brazilian satellites

SCD-2 being readied at Inpe

This list covers all satellites developed totally or partially in Brazil. Since Brazil does not currently have orbital launch capability and has historically had to rely on other countries.

List

Scientific and remote sensing

Key

     Destroyed during launch or on the pad.

Designation	Class	Launch			Deployment			Mission status	Summary
		Date	Site	Vehicle	Date	Orbit	Vehicle
1990s
Dove-OSCAR 17	Cubesat	22 January 1990	Kourou Space Centre	Ariane 40 H10	22 January 1990	Low Earth Orbit	N/A	Operated until March 1998. [1]	Brazil's first privately designed amateur radio satellite. [1]
SCD-1	Satellite	9 February 1993	Kennedy Space Center	Pegasus 003/F3	9 February 1993	Low Earth Orbit	N/A	In operation.	First satellite developed by INPE. [2]
SCD-2A	Satellite	2 November 1997	Alcântara Space Center	VLS-1 V1	N/A	N/A	N/A	Destroyed at launch. [3]	Second satellite developed by INPE. [3]
SCD-2	Satellite	23 October 1998	Cape Canaveral Space Force Station	Pegasus	23 October 1998	Low Earth Orbit	N/A	In operation.	Third satellite developed by INPE. [4]
CBERS-1	Satellite	14 October 1999	Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center	Long March 4B	14 October 1999	Sun-synchronous orbit	N/A	Decommissioned in August 2003. [5]	First satellite from the program CBERS. [6] [7]
SACI-1	Microsatellite							It lost contact shortly after entering orbit. [8]	It aimed to carry out university experiments selected by the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. The programme was terminated after the loss of the second satellite. [9]
SACI-2	Microsatellite	11 December 1999	Alcântara Space Center	VLS-1 V2	N/A	N/A	N/A	Destroyed at launch. [9]
2000s
CBERS-2	Satellite	21 October 2003	Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center	Long March 4B	21 October 2003	Low Earth Orbit	N/A	Decommissioned in January 2009. [5]	Second satellite from the program CBERS. [10]
SATEC	Microsatellite	25 August 2003	Alcântara Space Center	VLS-1 V3	N/A	N/A	N/A	Destroyed during pre-launch tests on the platform due to the 2003 Alcântara VLS accident. [11]	Developed by INPE. [11]
UNOSAT	Nanosatellite								Developed by University North of Paraná. [11]
CBERS-2B	Satellite	19 September 2007	Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center	Long March 4B	19 September 2007	Sun-synchronous orbit	N/A	Decommissioned in April 2010. [5]	Third satellite from the program CBERS. [12]
2010s
CBERS-3	Satellite	9 December 2013	Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center	Long March 4B	N/A	N/A	N/A	Premature re-entry due to rocket failure. [13]	Fourth satellite from the program CBERS.
NanoSatC-Br 1  [ pt ]	Nanosatellite	19 June 2014	Dombarovsky Air Base	Dnepr	19 June 2014	Low Earth Orbit	N/A	In operation (2019). [14]	Developed under an agreement between UFSM and INPE. [15]
CBERS-4	Satellite	7 December 2014	Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center	Long March 4B	7 December 2014	Sun-synchronous orbit	N/A	In operation.	Fifth satellite from the program CBERS. [16]
AESP-14	Nanosatellite	10 January 2015	Cape Canaveral Space Force Station	Falcon 9 v1.1	5 February 2015	ISS	Kibō [17]	Considered inoperative after failing to open an antenna. [18]	Developed by INPE and ITA. [19]
SERPENS  [ pt ]	Nanosatellite	18 August 2015	Tanegashima Space Center	H-IIB	17 September 2015	ISS	Kibō [20]	Re-entry on 27 March 2016. [21]	Project created by AEB in partnership with universities. [22]
Tancredo-1	Picosatellite	9 December 2016	Tanegashima Space Center	H-IIB	16 January 2017	ISS	Kibō [23]	Re-entry on 18 October 2017. [24]	Educational project at the Tancredo Neves Municipal School in Ubatuba. [23]
ITASAT-1  [ pt ]	Microsatellite	3 December 2018	Vandenberg Air Force Base	Falcon 9 Block 5	3 December 2018	Low Earth Orbit	N/A	In orbit (2020). [25]	Project developed by ITA, AEB and INPE. [25]
CBERS-4A  [ pt ]	Satellite	20 December 2019	Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center	Long March 4B	20 December 2019	Sun-synchronous orbit	N/A	In operation (2021). [26]	Sixth satellite from the program CBERS. [27]
FloripaSat-1  [ pt ]	Nanosatellite							In operation (2020). [28]	Developed by students from UFSC in partnership with AEB. [28]
2020s
Amazônia-1	Satellite	28 February 2022	Satish Dhawan Space Centre	PSLV-C51	28 February 2022	Polar orbit [29]	N/A	In operation (2021). [29]	Developed by INPE and AEB. [29] It is the first satellite developed and built entirely in Brazil. [30]
NanoSatC-Br 2  [ pt ]	Nanosatellite	22 March 2021	Baikonur Cosmodrome	Soyuz-2	22 March 2021	Low Earth Orbit	N/A	In operation (2021). [31]	Built in partnership between INPE and UFSM. [32]
PION-BR1	Picosatellite	13 January 2022	Cape Canaveral Space Force Station	Falcon 9 Block 5	13 January 2022	Low Earth Orbit	N/A	Reentry (2024). [33]	Developed by PION Labs  [ pt ], it is the first Brazilian produced satellite developed by a startup. [34]
Alpha Crux	Picosatellite	1 April 2022	Cape Canaveral Space Force Station	Falcon 9 Block 5	1 April 2022	Low Earth orbit	N/A	In orbit (2022).	Developed by University of Brasília, in partnership with the Brazilian Space Agency. [35]
Carcará I	Microsatellite	25 May 2022	Cape Canaveral Space Force Station	Falcon 9 Block 5	25 May 2022	Low Earth Orbit	N/A	In orbit (2022).	Remote sensing radar satellite of the Brazilian Air Force, part of the Lessonia-1 Project, produced by the Finnish company ICEYE. [36] [37] [38]
Carcará II
SPORT	Microsatellite	21 November 2022	Cape Canaveral Space Force Station	Falcon 9 Block 5	21 November 2022	Low Earth Orbit	N/A	Reentry in October 2023. [39]	Scintilation Prediction Observations Research Task, project developed in a paterneship between ITA, NASA, INPE and American universities. [40]
VCUB-1	Nanosatelite	15 April 2023	Vandenberg Air Force Base	Falcon 9 Block 5	15 April 2023	Low Earth Orbit	N/A	In orbit (2023).	Developed by the Brazilian joint-venture Visiona (Embraer and Telebrás), for Earth observation and data collection. [41]

ProSAME

Projects going through the Procedure for Selection and Adoption of Space Missions of the Brazilian Space Agency. ^[42]

7 December 2023 meeting ^[39]

Name	Institution	Type
Under admission process
Missão Programa Microgravidade	AEB	Space sciences
NanoMIRAX 2 [43]	INPE	Astronomy
SABIA-Mar	INPE / CONAE	Earth observation
Galileo Solar Space Telescope [44]	INPE	Space sciences
Under qualification process
Amazônia-1B	INPE	Earth observation
AQUAE Mission [45]	INPE
BIOMESAT [46]	INPE
Constelação Catarina-Frota A [45]	INPE
CBERS-6	INPE / CAST
EQUARS [47]	INPE
Garatéa-L	Airvantis	Moon orbiter [48]
SelenITA	ITA
ITASAT 2	ITA	Space climate [45]
MAPSAR	INPE	Earth observation

Telecommunication

Brazilian satellites, but produced abroad:

Satellite	Manufacturer	Rocket	Launch date	Status
1980s
Brasilsat A1	Spar Aerospace [49]	Ariane V12 [50]	8 February 1985 [50]	Retired in March 2002. [50]
Brasilsat A2	Spar Aerospace [49]	Ariane 3 [51]	28 March 1986 [51]	Retired in February 2004. [51]
1990s
Brasilsat B1	Hughes [52]	Ariane V66 [53]	10 August 1994 [53]	Retired in December 2010. [53]
Brasilsat B2	Hughes [52]	Ariane V71 [54]	28 March 1995 [54]	Retired in June 2018 [54]
Brasilsat B3	Hughes [52]	Ariane V105 [55]	4 February 1998 [55]	Retired in August 2018. [55]
2000s
Brasilsat B4	Hughes [52]	Ariane V131 [56]	17 August 2000 [56]	Retired in June 2021 [56]
Estrela do Sul	SSL	Zenit-3SL [57]	18 January 2004 [57]	?
Star One C12	/ Thales Alenia Space	Ariane	3 February 2005	In operation.
Star One C1	/ Thales Alenia Space [58]	Ariane #179 [58]	14 November 2007 [58]	In operation. [58]
Star One C2	Alcatel-Lucent [59]	Ariane 5	18 April 2008 [60]	Em operação.
2010s
Star One C3	Orbital Sciences Corporation [61]	Ariane 5	10 November 2012	In operation (2022). [62]
Star One C4	SSL	Ariane VA224 [63]	15 July 2015 [63]	In operation. [63]
Star One D1	SSL [64]	Ariane	21 December 2016	In operation.
SGDC-1	/ Thales Alenia Space [65]	Ariane 5 [66]	4 May 2017 [66]	In operation (2020). [66]
2020s
Star One D2	SSL	Ariane 5 VA2545 [67]	30 July 2021 [67]	In operation (2021). [67]

See also

• National Institute for Space Research
• Brazilian Space Agency

References

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35. "UnB lança satélite que permite comunicação em áreas onde não há sinal de telefonia no país" (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2022-04-03. Retrieved 2022-07-07.
36. "SpaceX, empresa de Elon Musk, vai lançar satélites brasileiros" (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2022-05-24. Retrieved 2022-05-25.
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52. "Brasilsat B's specifications" . Retrieved 2022-05-18.
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54. "Brasilsat B2" . Retrieved 2022-05-18.
55. "Brasilsat B3" . Retrieved 2022-05-18.
56. "Brasilsat B4" . Retrieved 2022-05-18.
57. "Estrela do Sul" . Retrieved 2022-05-18.
58. "Brasilsat C1" . Retrieved 2022-05-18.
59. "Star One C2 folheto" (PDF) (in Brazilian Portuguese). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-01-13. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
60. "Embratel lança com sucesso o satélite Star One C2". 2008-04-18. Archived from the original on 2020-08-15. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
61. "Embratel anuncia lançamento do satélite Star One C3" (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-05-18.
62. "Anatel prorroga direito de exploração do StarOne C3 para até 2029" (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2022-03-03. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
63. "Brasilsat C4" . Retrieved 2022-05-18.
64. "Sar One D1" . Retrieved 2022-05-18.
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66. "Satélite Geoestacionário de Defesa e Comunicações Estratégicas completa 3 anos no espaço" (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2020-05-04. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
67. "Star One D2 da Embratel é colocado em órbita e deve iniciar operação em outubro" (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2021-07-30. Retrieved 2022-05-18.

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