Cartosat-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
Cartosat-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 7,900 triangles in a 44 kB glTF file, and is 2.5 m across at full scale.
On Space Radar’s live map it is drawn for 6 catalogued objects, each where its published orbit puts it now. Open it on the map.
Dimensions and their sources
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| 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 |
eoPortal, 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.
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).
The full record
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
Where the map uses it. NORAD 32783, 36795, 41599, 41948, 42767 and 43111 (CARTOSAT-2A to -2F), in the active catalogue of 2026-10-26: ISRO's one-camera mapping satellites on the hexagonal Cartosat bus, a gold body under a telescope barrel with four fixed solar panels; public #1142. CARTOSAT-1 and CARTOSAT-3 are other craft and keep the generic shape
Licence note. ISRO's own photographs of Cartosat-2F (Commons, GODL-India: attribution, commercial use and derivatives allowed) were looked at for the layout, with credit; nothing of any picture 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 2
What the shape was compared with. None of these pictures is in the file.
- Cartosat-2F satellite in cleanroom at SDSC SHAR SriharikotaIndian 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 testIndian 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
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:
Cartosat-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.
Or embed the viewer in your page:
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