Amazonia-1
Shape built from published dimensions and pictures; details simplified.
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About this model
Amazonia-1 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 4,220 triangles in a 35 kB glTF file, and is 2.5 m across at full scale.
On Space Radar’s live map it is drawn for the object with NORAD catalogue number 47699, where its published orbit puts it now. Open it on the map.
Dimensions and their sources
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Length | 2.5 m |
| Size | 1 × 2.5 × 1 m |
| Mass | 637 kg |
FAPESP's magazine Pesquisa, revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/en/amazonia-in-space, OPENED 2026-10-27: 'Shaped like a parallelepiped, Amazonia-1 weighs 640 kilograms (kg) and measures 2.5 meters (m) long by 1 m wide and 1 m deep.'; eoPortal, eoportal.org/satellite-missions/amazonia-1, OPENED 2026-10-27: 'Amazonia-1 is composed of two independent modules: a Service Module, which is the Multi-Mission Platform (MMP), and a Payload Module'; 'The Amazonia-1 spacecraft has a mass of 637 kg'; 'Its power is provided by two solar arrays'. OURS: the split of the 2.5 m (0.95 m platform, 1.55 m payload), the panels' size (0.95 m square, three a wing) and the wings' place, the dish's size and tilt, the cameras' tilt, every sensor.
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 published dimensions (INPE's pictures looked at only).
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 (1 583 paths, read 2026-10-27) has none of these craft, and no agency named here publishes a model of its own under terms that allow one
Where the map uses it. NORAD 47699 (AMAZONIA 1), the one record in the active catalogue of 2026-10-26: INPE's first Earth-observation satellite designed and built in Brazil, on the MMP platform, a copper-gold box 2.5 m long with two folding wings of three panels; public #1139
Licence note. INPE's photographs and render of Amazonia-1 on Commons are CC BY-SA 3.0 (share-alike): LOOKED AT ONLY for the layout, never fetched into a file; nothing of them is in the file. 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.
References 2
What the shape was compared with. None of these pictures is in the file.
- Amazonia 1 with MLI installed 001, 002; Amazônia-1 satellite in clean room 001INPE (Wikimedia Commons)CC BY-SA 3.0 (INPE; Commons, read 2026-10-27): share-alike, LOOKED AT ONLY
- Amazonia 1 PMM with Payload ModuleCPTEC - INPE (Wikimedia Commons)CC BY-SA 3.0 (CPTEC - INPE; Commons, read 2026-10-27): share-alike, LOOKED AT ONLY
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:
Amazonia-1 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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