# Cartosat-2 3D model

> Shape built from published dimensions and pictures; details simplified.

Free 3D model of Cartosat-2, a satellite, built from published dimensions by Space Radar. 7,900 triangles, 44 kB glTF, MIT.

- **Class:** Satellites
- **Mission:** Earth observation
- **Triangles:** 7,900
- **File:** cartosat-2.glb, 44 kB, glTF 2.0 binary (meshopt)
- **Look:** Flat colours
- **Size:** 2.5 m across
- **Made:** Built from dimensions
- **Added:** 2026-10-27
- **NORAD:** 32783, 36795, 41599, 41948, 42767, 43111
- **Download:** https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/main/site/models/cartosat-2.glb
- **Mirror:** https://git.sara-agent.org/sara-projects/space-radar/raw/branch/main/site/models/cartosat-2.glb
- **Viewer:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/model/?id=cartosat-2
- **On the live map:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/#at=sat-32783
- **Licence:** MIT (https://github.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/blob/main/LICENSE)
- **Credit:** Cartosat-2 3D model by Space Radar (spaceradar.ai), MIT License

Canonical: https://models.spaceradar.ai/cartosat-2/

## 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 and ISRO's photographs of Cartosat-2F (ISRO, GODL-India).

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

## Dimensions

- Height: 2.5 m
- Bus: 2.5 × 2.4 m
- Telescope height: 1.6 m
- Telescope diameter: 0.76 m
- Mass: 680 kg
- Panels: 4

Source: eoPortal, https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/cartosat-2, OPENED 2026-10-27: 'Hexagonal-shaped, light weight and compact spacecraft structure'; 'Spacecraft bus size ~ 2.5 m x 2.4 m'; 'Instrument size 760 mm diameter, 1600 mm in height'; 'The fixed solar arrays provide a power of 900 W when pointed toward the sun'; 'CartoSat-2 has a launch mass of 680 kg'. OURS: the hexagon's 1.25 m across flats and the body's 1.45 m height (so that the craft is the cited 2.5 m tall with the barrel), the panels' 0.95 x 1.7 m and their place, every patch. The Cartosat-2A to -2F differ in mass and detail (680 to 727 kg); no page read shows a difference outside, so one file serves all six.

## References

- [Cartosat-2F satellite in cleanroom at SDSC SHAR Sriharikota](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PSLV-C40-_Cartosat-2F_satellite_in_cleanroom_at_SDSC_SHAR_Sriharikota.jpg), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) (GODL-India (Government Open Data Licence - India; attribution; commercial use and derivatives allowed), as the Commons file's LicenseShortName reads, 2026-10-27)
- [Cartosat-2F satellite undergoing solar panel deployment test](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PSLV-C40-_Cartosat-2F_satellite_undergoing_solar_panel_deployment_test.jpg), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) (GODL-India (Government Open Data Licence - India; attribution; commercial use and derivatives allowed), as the Commons file's LicenseShortName reads, 2026-10-27)