Boeing 702 satellite bus
Shape built from published dimensions and the maker’s renders; details estimated.
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Pictures 4
Three-quarter view
From the side
From behind
From above
About this model
Boeing 702 satellite bus 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 the maker’s renders; details estimated. It has 19,810 triangles in a 150 kB glTF file, and is 40 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 |
|---|---|
| Body x | 3 m |
| Body y | 3.3 m |
| Body z | 5.6 m |
| Span | 40.4 m |
| Reflector | 2.7 m |
GCAT, the 702HP and 702MP satellites mapped here: Length 6.0 to 9.0 m (median 7.0), Diameter 2.0 to 3.5 (median 3.2), Span 33.8 to 48.1 m (median 40). Drawn: a body 3.0 x 3.3 x 5.6 m (7.0 m with the deck antennas), 40.4 m over the wings. OURS (ESTIMATED): the reflectors' 2.7 m and their arms and tilts, the deployed radiators' 1.9 x 3.0 m and their 20 degree lean, the 3.2 m mast, six panels of 2.35 x 2.4 m a wing, the deck antennas. (read 2026-11-07)
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 (McDowell's GCAT, Wikipedia, the makers' figures); layout read from the makers' renders, looked at only.
The full record
built by this project in code (tools/bus-builder, release 2.0.0 batch m4-buses) from published sizes, with the maker's renders and the photographs under `references` LOOKED AT ONLY; no image-to-3D model was used and no published mesh (NASA 3D Resources has none of this bus; scripts/check-model-sources.py, 2026-11-07)
Where the map uses it. the 18 geostationary satellites registry/geo-buses.yaml names as Boeing 702HP or 702MP, by catalogue number; SkyTerra 1 (a GEM, 22 m reflector) and Morelos 3 (22 m L-band reflector) keep the stand-in, and the 702SP has its own file. A family FORM, not one satellite's payload: the route is `generic` and the card says the shape is built from the maker's renders. They wore the SSL-1300 stand-in; forge #117
Licence note. The numbers are facts (GCAT CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0, the makers' published figures); the shape is this project's, under this repository's licence. The renders and photographs named under `references` were LOOKED AT ONLY: no part of any is in a file. NO LOGO AND NO LETTERING is on the mesh.
References 8
What the shape was compared with. None of these pictures is in the file.
- Satélite Morelos III.jpgas named on the Commons file pageCC BY-SA 4.0 (Commons LicenseShortName, read 2026-11-07)
- MC-2941 Wideband Global SATCOM Satellite.pngUnited States Air Force (Wikimedia Commons)Public domain (United States Air Force; Commons LicenseShortName, read 2026-11-07)
- Anik F2 (Gunter's Space Page)Boeing, via Gunter's Space Page (Gunter D. Krebs)copyright Boeing (a maker's render; looked at only, no part of it is in a file)
- AMOS-17 (Gunter's Space Page)Boeing, via Gunter's Space Page (Gunter D. Krebs)copyright Boeing (a maker's render; looked at only, no part of it is in a file)
- Inmarsat-5 (Gunter's Space Page)Boeing, via Gunter's Space Page (Gunter D. Krebs)copyright Boeing (a maker's render; looked at only, no part of it is in a file)
- Intelsat 21 (Gunter's Space Page)Boeing, via Gunter's Space Page (Gunter D. Krebs)copyright Boeing (a maker's render; looked at only, no part of it is in a file)
- Hughes / Boeing: HS-702 / BSS-702 (Gunter's Space Page)Gunter D. Krebsfacts, cited; none of the page's text or pictures is used
- General Catalog of Artificial Space Objects (GCAT), satcat.tsv of 2026-11-07Jonathan C. McDowellCC BY 4.0 (the catalogue's own statement)
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:
Boeing 702 satellite bus 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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