Blue Ghost
Shape built from published dimensions and pictures; details simplified.
Turn it in 3D
Open the 3D viewer (www.spaceradar.ai).
The viewer loads when you ask: about 700 kB the first time (three.js and the model), much less after.
Pictures 4
Three-quarter view
From the side
From behind
From above
About this model
Blue Ghost is one of the 203 3D models Space Radar made itself: a lander or rover, 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 7,422 triangles in a 63 kB glTF file, and is 3.5 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 |
|---|---|
| Height | 2 m |
| Width | 3.5 m |
Firefly Aerospace, 'Blue Ghost Mission 1', fireflyspace.com/missions/blue-ghost-mission-1, OPENED 2026-10-20: 'Standing 2 m (6.6 ft) tall and 3.5 m (11.5 ft) wide, Blue Ghost is designed for stability with shock absorbing feet, a low center of mass, and a wide footprint.' NASA, 'Houston We Have a Podcast: Blue Ghost Mission 1', nasa.gov/podcasts/houston-we-have-a-podcast/blue-ghost-mission-1…, OPENED 2026-10-20: 'about two meters tall ... and about three and a half meters wide'. Wikipedia, 'Blue Ghost Mission 1', OPENED 2026-10-20: 'Three solar panels'. OURS: the deck 2.0 m square, the body 1.84 m at the deck and 1.4 m at the top deck, the 3.5 m taken across the footpads' outer edges side to side, every part's size (read 2026-10-20)
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 Firefly's published dimensions and pictures (NASA, public domain; SpaceX, CC0; Blervis, CC BY 4.0).
The full record
built by this project in code (release 1.3.0 stage W1-c's part library, lib.py, and one script a craft, kept with the stage's notes), 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, and NASA Science's 3D models have none of this craft; read 2026-10-20)
Where the map uses it. the blue-ghost-1 landing site (registry/sites.yaml), Mons Latreille in Mare Crisium: Firefly's Blue Ghost lander of Mission 1, upright as it landed. It was the generic lander, which is still what is drawn while this file is on its way; public #1136
Licence note. Public domain (NASA's rendering), CC0 (SpaceX's photograph of the flight lander in its fairing) and CC BY 4.0 (a photograph of Firefly's full-size mock-up by Commons user Blervis): looked at, with credit; 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 3
What the shape was compared with. None of these pictures is in the file.
- Firefly Blue Ghost lander mockupBlervis, CC BY 4.0CC BY 4.0 (Blervis, own work; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-20)
- Blue Ghost Mission 1 renderingNASA/GSFCPublic domain (NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-20)
- Blue Ghost M1 in fairingSpaceXCC0 (SpaceX; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-20)
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:
Blue Ghost 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.
Or embed the viewer in your page:
<iframe src="https://www.spaceradar.ai/model/?id=blue-ghost" title="Blue Ghost, 3D model by Space Radar" width="600" height="450" loading="lazy" style="border:0;max-width:100%"></iframe>Related models
