Eurostar E3000 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
Eurostar E3000 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 19,506 triangles in a 139 kB glTF file, and is 39 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 | 2.4 m |
| Body y | 2.9 m |
| Body z | 4.8 m |
| Span | 39.2 m |
| Reflector | 2.6 m |
MEASAT-3B 6.6 x 2.8 x 2.3 m stowed and 39.4 m span (Wikipedia, read 2026-11-07); Intelsat 10-02 7.5 x 2.9 x 2.4 m (Wikipedia infobox); Eutelsat 70B 7 m high and 8 m wide over its antennas (Wikipedia); GCAT's 48 mapped satellites, median span 39 m (30 to 47). Drawn: a body 2.4 x 2.9 x 4.8 m (6.9 m with the deck tower), 39.2 m over the wings, 8.7 m over the reflectors. OURS (ESTIMATED): the reflectors' 2.9 and 2.7 m (the renders draw them nearly the wall's height, larger than Eutelsat 70B's 8 m width alone gives) and their places and tilts, the deck reflector's 1.6 m, four panels of 3.9 x 2.5 m a wing, the 2.8 m yoke, the horn and feed clusters, the radiator tile pattern. (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 47 geostationary satellites registry/geo-buses.yaml names as Airbus Eurostar E3000 (any of its S, LX, M, X, EOR and e members), by catalogue number; Inmarsat 6-F1 (a 9 m reflector) keeps the stand-in. 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 9
What the shape was compared with. None of these pictures is in the file.
- Eutelsat 9B (Gunter's Space Page)Airbus, via Gunter's Space Page (Gunter D. Krebs)copyright Airbus (a maker's render; looked at only, no part of it is in a file)
- Astra 5B (Gunter's Space Page)Airbus, via Gunter's Space Page (Gunter D. Krebs)copyright Airbus (a maker's render; looked at only, no part of it is in a file)
- Arabsat 5B (Gunter's Space Page)Airbus, via Gunter's Space Page (Gunter D. Krebs)copyright Airbus (a maker's render; looked at only, no part of it is in a file)
- Ekspress-AM7 (Gunter's Space Page)Airbus, via Gunter's Space Page (Gunter D. Krebs)copyright Airbus (a maker's render; looked at only, no part of it is in a file)
- Astra 2E (Gunter's Space Page)Airbus, via Gunter's Space Page (Gunter D. Krebs)copyright Airbus (a maker's render; looked at only, no part of it is in a file)
- SES-14 with GOLD hosted payload.jpgNASAPublic domain (NASA; Commons LicenseShortName, read 2026-11-07)
- Wikipedia: MEASAT-3bWikipedia contributorsCC BY-SA 4.0 (the infobox's numbers are facts; nothing else is copied)
- Wikipedia: Eutelsat 70BWikipedia contributorsCC BY-SA 4.0 (the infobox's numbers are facts; nothing else is copied)
- 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:
Eurostar E3000 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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