# CBERS-4A 3D model

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

Free 3D model of CBERS-4A, a satellite, built from published dimensions by Space Radar. 7,492 triangles, 45 kB glTF, MIT.

- **Class:** Satellites
- **Mission:** Earth observation
- **Triangles:** 7,492
- **File:** cbers-4a.glb, 45 kB, glTF 2.0 binary (meshopt)
- **Look:** Flat colours
- **Size:** 6.3 m across
- **Made:** Built from dimensions
- **Added:** 2026-10-27
- **NORAD:** 44883
- **Download:** https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/main/site/models/cbers-4a.glb
- **Mirror:** https://git.sara-agent.org/sara-projects/space-radar/raw/branch/main/site/models/cbers-4a.glb
- **Viewer:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/model/?id=cbers-4a
- **On the live map:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/#at=sat-44883
- **Licence:** MIT (https://github.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/blob/main/LICENSE)
- **Credit:** CBERS-4A 3D model by Space Radar (spaceradar.ai), MIT License

Canonical: https://models.spaceradar.ai/cbers-4a/

## 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 INPE's photographs of CBERS-4A (CBERS/INPE – Divulgação).

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: 2.6 m
- Bus: 1.8 × 2 × 2.6 m
- Array: 6.3 × 2.6 m
- Mass: 1730 kg

Source: eoPortal, https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/cbers-4a, OPENED 2026-10-27: 'CBERS-4A uses a Phoenix Eye 1 bus, designed by the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST). This three-axis-stabilised bus has dimensions of 1.8 x 2.0 x 2.6 m, with 6.3 x 2.6 m solar array dimensions, and a launch mass of 1730 kg.' The array standing as tall as the body is read off INPE's photographs (007). OURS: the order of the three numbers on the axes (the 2.0 m along the array's own axis), every patch's and instrument's place.

## References

- [CBERS-4A 002, 004, 007 and 014: CBERS-4A being prepared in Brazil](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CBERS-4A_002.jpg), CBERS/INPE – Divulgação (INPE's gallery: 'Todas as imagens poderão ser reproduzidas, desde que citada a fonte: CBERS/INPE – Divulgação' (all images may be reproduced if the source is cited; the Commons file's own licence text, read 2026-10-27))