AEHF
Shape built from published dimensions and pictures; details simplified.
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Pictures 4
Three-quarter view
From the side
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From above
About this model
AEHF is one of the 203 3D models Space Radar made itself: a satellite, built in code from published dimensions and photographs, with no image-to-3D generator and no one else’s mesh.
Shape built from published dimensions and pictures; details simplified. It has 12,120 triangles in a 67 kB glTF file, and is 30 m across at full scale.
It is part of the map’s library; no object on the live map is drawn with it today.
Dimensions and their sources
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Span | 29.9 m |
| Length | 9.45 m |
Lockheed Martin's own Code One magazine, 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, 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, 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.
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).
The full record
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.
Where the map uses it. the six Advanced Extremely High Frequency records (`AEHF-1 (USA 214)` to `AEHF-6 (USA 298)`, 6 in the live saved data of 2026-10-12), by number: the US military's protected communications satellites on Lockheed Martin's A2100M bus. They wore the generic satellite; public #1097
Licence note. Public domain for the pictures read off (works of the US federal government, the Commons API's LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-27); the shape is this project's, under this repository's licence, built from published numbers (facts). NO LOGO AND NO LETTERING is on the mesh. NO MAKER'S PRESS-KIT PICTURE WAS COPIED OR PROJECTED: where one was looked at (named in `dimensions.source`) it is said so there.
References 3
What the shape was compared with. None of these pictures is in the file.
- First AEHF (120808-F-BB000-002)U.S. Air Force (Wikimedia Commons)Public domain (U.S. Air Force; the Commons API's LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-27)
- AEHF 1USAF (Wikimedia Commons)Public domain (USAF Los Angeles AFB; the Commons API's LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-27)
- AEHF.pngDOT&E (Wikimedia Commons)Public domain (Office of the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation; the Commons API's LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-27)
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Use it
The model is under the MIT licence: use it, change it and share it, in any project, also a paid one. Keep the credit:
AEHF 3D model by Space Radar (spaceradar.ai), MIT LicenseAny glTF 2.0 loader that reads meshopt compression (EXT_meshopt_compression) opens the file: three.js with its MeshoptDecoder, Babylon.js, model-viewer. Tools such as glTF-Transform can write an uncompressed copy.
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