# AEHF 3D model

> Shape built from published dimensions and pictures; details simplified.

Free 3D model of AEHF, a satellite, built from published dimensions by Space Radar. 12,120 triangles, 67 kB glTF, MIT.

- **Class:** Satellites
- **Mission:** Communications
- **Triangles:** 12,120
- **File:** aehf.glb, 67 kB, glTF 2.0 binary (meshopt)
- **Look:** Flat colours
- **Size:** 30 m across
- **Made:** Built from dimensions
- **Added:** 2026-10-27
- **Download:** https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/main/site/models/aehf.glb
- **Mirror:** https://git.sara-agent.org/sara-projects/space-radar/raw/branch/main/site/models/aehf.glb
- **Viewer:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/model/?id=aehf
- **Licence:** MIT (https://github.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/blob/main/LICENSE)
- **Credit:** AEHF 3D model by Space Radar (spaceradar.ai), MIT License

Canonical: https://models.spaceradar.ai/aehf/

## How it was made

Built in code from published dimensions and photographs, with no image-to-3D generator and no one else’s mesh. 3D model: built by Space Radar from public US Air Force renders and published numbers (public domain sources).

built by this project in code (the private tool model-from-images: assemble.py, from a yaml of primitives), from the cited dimensions and the pictures under `references`; no image-to-3D model was used, and no published mesh (NASA's 3D Resources has none of this craft and no agency model of it was found on 2026-10-27). ONLY PUBLIC, OFFICIALLY RELEASED PICTURES AND NUMBERS WERE USED: nothing beyond what the US Air Force, Space Force, Navy or the maker has released is drawn, and where a page does not say (the inside of a sensor, a payload's layout, the size of a part) the part is a plain closed shape or is left out, and the row says which.

## Dimensions

- Span: 29.9 m
- Length: 9.45 m

Source: Lockheed Martin's own Code One magazine, https://www.codeonemagazine.com/c5_article.html?item_id=130, read 2026-10-27: 'When extended, the solar panels give the AEHF satellite a span of ninety-eight feet' and 'this thirty-one foot tall, 13,570-pound satellite'; Air & Space Forces Magazine, https://www.airandspaceforces.com/weapons/aehf/, read 2026-10-27: 'Length 31 ft', 'width 98 ft (with full solar array extension)', 'Solar arrays generating 20,000 watts'. Antenna count: Gunter's Space Page, https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/aehf-1.htm, read 2026-10-27: '2 SHF Downlink Phased Arrays', '2 Crosslinks', '2 Uplink/Downlink Nulling Antennas', '1 Uplink EHF Phased Array', '6 Uplink/Downlink gimbaled Dish Antenna', '1 Each Uplink/downlink earth coverage horns'; bus A2100M. The shapes, the array of four strips a wing, the gold octagonal phased arrays, the two white lens-shaped antennas, the long dishes on arms and the thruster legs are read off the Air Force's released art (Commons: 'First AEHF (120808-F-BB000-002).jpg', 'AEHF 1.jpg', public domain). NO PAGE GIVES THE BODY'S WIDTH OR DEPTH, nor a wing's width: those are OURS (a wing 10.7 x 5.0 m is what 20 000 W asks of the cells); the Y of gold struts is the art's.

## References

- [First AEHF (120808-F-BB000-002)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:First_AEHF_(120808-F-BB000-002).jpg), U.S. Air Force (Wikimedia Commons) (Public domain (U.S. Air Force; the Commons API's LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-27))
- [AEHF 1](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AEHF_1.jpg), USAF (Wikimedia Commons) (Public domain (USAF Los Angeles AFB; the Commons API's LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-27))
- [AEHF.png](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AEHF.png), DOT&E (Wikimedia Commons) (Public domain (Office of the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation; the Commons API's LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-27))