This list covers all satellites developed totally or partially in Brazil. Brazil does not currently have orbital launch capability and has historically had to rely on other countries.
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | First satellite from the program CBERS.[5] | |
| SACI-1 | Microsatellite | It lost contact shortly after entering orbit.[6] | 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. | |||||||
| SACI-2 | Microsatellite | 11 December 1999 | Alcântara Space Center | VLS-1 V2 | N/A | N/A | N/A | Destroyed at launch.[7] | ||
| 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. | Second satellite from the program CBERS.[8] | |
| 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. | Developed by INPE. | |
| UNOSAT | Nanosatellite | Developed by University North of Paraná. | ||||||||
| 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. | Third satellite from the program CBERS.[9] | |
| 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.[10] | Fourth satellite from the program CBERS. | |
| Nanosatellite | 19 June 2014 | Dombarovsky Air Base |  Dnepr | 19 June 2014 | Low Earth Orbit | N/A | In operation (2019).[11] | Developed under an agreement between UFSM and INPE.[12] | ||
| 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.[13] | |
| AESP-14 | Nanosatellite | 10 January 2015 |  Cape Canaveral Space Force Station | Falcon 9 v1.1 | 5 February 2015 | ISS |  Kibō[14] | Considered inoperative after failing to open an antenna.[15] | Developed by INPE and ITA.[16] | |
| Nanosatellite | 18 August 2015 | Tanegashima Space Center | H-IIB | 17 September 2015 | ISS | Kibō[17] | Re-entry on 27 March 2016.[18] | Project created by AEB in partnership with universities.[19] | ||
| Tancredo-1 | Picosatellite | 9 December 2016 | Tanegashima Space Center | H-IIB | 16 January 2017 | ISS | Kibō[20] | Re-entry on 18 October 2017.[21] | Educational project at the Tancredo Neves Municipal School in Ubatuba. | |
| Microsatellite | 3 December 2018 | Vandenberg Air Force Base | Falcon 9 Block 5 | 3 December 2018 | Low Earth Orbit | N/A | In orbit (2020).[22] | Project developed by ITA, AEB and INPE. | ||
| Satellite | 20 December 2019 | Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center | Long March 4B | 20 December 2019 | Sun-synchronous orbit | N/A | In operation (2021).[23] | Sixth satellite from the program CBERS.[24] | ||
| Nanosatellite | In operation (2020).[25] | Developed by students from UFSC in partnership with AEB. | ||||||||
| 2020s | ||||||||||
| Amazônia-1 | Satellite | 28 February 2022 | Satish Dhawan Space Centre | PSLV-C51 | 28 February 2022 | Polar orbit | N/A | In operation (2021).[26] | Developed by INPE and AEB. It is the first satellite developed and built entirely in Brazil.[27] | |
| Nanosatellite | 22 March 2021 | Baikonur Cosmodrome | Soyuz-2 | 22 March 2021 | Low Earth Orbit | N/A | In operation (2021).[28] | Built in partnership between INPE and UFSM.[29] | ||
| Pion-BR1 | Picosatellite | 13 January 2022 | Cape Canaveral Space Force Station | Falcon 9 Block 5 | 13 January 2022 | Low Earth Orbit | N/A | In operation (2022).[30] | Developed by, it is the first Brazilian produced satellite developed by a startup.[31] | |
| 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.[32] | |
 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.[33] [34] [35] | |
| 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.[36] | Scintilation Prediction Observations Research Task, project developed in a paterneship between ITA, NASA, INPE and American universities.[37] | |
| 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.[38] | |
Projects going through the Procedure for Selection and Adoption of Space Missions of the Brazilian Space Agency.[39]
| Missão Programa Microgravidade | AEB | Space sciences | |
| NanoMIRAX 2[40] | INPE | Astronomy | |
| SABIA-Mar | INPE /  CONAE | Earth observation | |
| Galileo Solar Space Telescope[41] | INPE | Space sciences | |
| Amazônia-1B | INPE | Earth observation | |
| AQUAE Mission[42] | INPE | ||
| BIOMESAT[43] | INPE | ||
| Constelação Catarina-Frota A | INPE | ||
| CBERS-6 | INPE / CAST | ||
| EQUARS[44] | INPE | ||
| Garatéa-L | Airvantis | Moon orbiter[45] | |
| SelenITA | ITA | ||
| ITASAT 2 | ITA | Space climate | |
| MAPSAR | INPE | Earth observation | |
Brazilian satellites, but produced abroad:
| Satellite | Manufacturer | Rocket | Launch date | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brasilsat A1 |  Spar Aerospace[46] | Ariane V12 | 8 February 1985[47] | Retired in March 2002. | |
| Brasilsat A2 | Spar Aerospace | Ariane 3[48] | 28 March 1986 | Retired in February 2004. | |
| Brasilsat B1 | Hughes[49] | Ariane V66[50] | 10 August 1994 | Retired in December 2010. | |
| Brasilsat B2 | Hughes | Ariane V71[51] | 28 March 1995 | Retired in June 2018 | |
| Brasilsat B3 | Hughes | Ariane V105[52] | 4 February 1998 | Retired in August 2018. | |
| Brasilsat B4 | Hughes | Ariane V131[53] | 17 August 2000 | Retired in June 2021 | |
| Estrela do Sul | SSL | Zenit-3SL | 18 January 2004[54] | ? | |
| Star One C12 | / Thales Alenia Space | Ariane | 3 February 2005 | In operation. | |
| Star One C1 | / Thales Alenia Space[55] | Ariane #179 | 14 November 2007 | In operation. | |
| Star One C2 | Alcatel-Lucent[56] | Ariane 5 | 18 April 2008[57] | Em operação. | |
| Star One C3 | Orbital Sciences Corporation[58] | Ariane 5 | 10 November 2012 | In operation (2022).[59] | |
| Star One C4 | SSL | Ariane VA224[60] | 15 July 2015 | In operation. | |
| Star One D1 | SSL[61] | Ariane | 21 December 2016 | In operation. | |
| SGDC-1 | / Thales Alenia Space[62] | Ariane 5[63] | 4 May 2017 | In operation (2020). | |
| Star One D2 | SSL | Ariane 5 VA2545[64] | 30 July 2021 | In operation (2021). | |