Over the years, starships and other spacecraft affiliated with the United Federation of Planets have utilized a wide variety of probes. Each one was designed for different types of phenomena.

A list of Federation probes is as follows:

By class Edit

• Class 1 probe
• Class 2 probe
• Class 3 probe
• Class 4 probe
• Class 5 probe
• Class 8 probe

By function Edit

• Atmospheric probe (DS9: "Starship Down")
• "The Egg"
• Multispatial probe (VOY: "Extreme Risk")
• Radio beacon