BlackSky Gen-2
Shape built from published dimensions and pictures; details simplified.
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Pictures 4
Three-quarter view
From the side
From behind
From above
About this model
BlackSky Gen-2 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 5,706 triangles in a 57 kB glTF file, and is 0.8 m across at full scale.
On Space Radar’s live map it is drawn for 16 catalogued objects, each where its published orbit puts it now. Open it on the map.
Dimensions and their sources
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Length | 0.84 m |
| Width | 0.46 m |
| Depth | 0.4 m |
| Aperture | 0.24 m |
| Mass | 56 kg |
eoPortal, eoportal.org/satellite-missions/blacksky-constellation, OPENED 2026-10-27: 'The BlackSky microsatellite buses have been developed and constructed by Spaceflight Industries and are based on existing designs for the SENTRY-4000 bus, which has dimensions 0.4 x 0.46 x 0.84 m. Each microsatellite has a mass of 56 kg'; 'The SV-24 sensor ... with an aperture of 0.24 m'. Launch table: 55 to 60 kg for Global-2 to Global-19; the Gen-3 satellites (Global 31 and 32) are given no size. OURS: the wings (0.80 x 0.50 m, 12 x 6 cells), the barrel's diameter and depth, the dish and its stalk, the hinge arms and braces, the foil's patches, the star tracker (read 2026-10-27)
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 eoPortal's published dimensions; compared with the operator's pictures, looked at only.
The full record
built by this project in code (release 1.3.0's part library, lib.py and parts.py, kept with the stage's notes in ~/space-radar-handoff/release-1.4/r14-m5/build, one script a craft), 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 this craft, and no operator of it was found to publish a model under a free licence (searched 2026-10-27)
Where the map uses it. the BlackSky Global imagers of the first and second generation, 55 to 60 kg, on a bus derived from SENTRY-4000 with the SV-24 telescope, 11 in the live saved data of 2026-10-12: NORAD 43812, 44499, 47971, 49469, 49772, 49773, 49949, 49950, 52196, 55982, 55983 (Global-2, -4, -9, -14, -12, -13, -17, -16, -18, -19, -5). It wore the class shape of a satellite; public #1148. NOT the Gen-3 craft (Global-31, -32, -33, -34, -36: NORAD 63027, 64231, 66554, 68098, 100682): eoPortal gives no size and no picture of them, and a different design must not wear this file
Licence note. No operator picture or model is in the file: the pictures named `LOOKED AT ONLY` were looked at for the layout and are on no sheet. The shape is this project's, under this repository's licence, built from published numbers (facts). NO LOGO, FLAG OR LETTERING is on the mesh.
References 3
What the shape was compared with. None of these pictures is in the file.
- Artist's rendition of the BlackSky constellation (eoPortal figure 1)BlackSky Globallooked at only; not free
- BlackSky satellites artist concept (eoPortal figure 18)BlackSkylooked at only; not free
- Photo of the BlackSky-1 pathfinder microsatellite (eoPortal figure 2)Spaceflight Industrieslooked at only; not free
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:
BlackSky Gen-2 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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