# Chang'e 5 3D model

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

Free 3D model of Chang'e 5, a lander or rover, built from published dimensions by Space Radar. 15,317 triangles, 118 kB glTF, MIT.

- **Class:** Landers and rovers
- **Mission:** Landers and rovers
- **Triangles:** 15,317
- **File:** change-5.glb, 118 kB, glTF 2.0 binary (meshopt)
- **Look:** Flat colours
- **Size:** 4.8 m across
- **Made:** Built from dimensions
- **Added:** 2026-10-21
- **Download:** https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/main/site/models/change-5.glb
- **Mirror:** https://git.sara-agent.org/sara-projects/space-radar/raw/branch/main/site/models/change-5.glb
- **Viewer:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/model/?id=change-5
- **Licence:** MIT (https://github.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/blob/main/LICENSE)
- **Credit:** Chang'e 5 3D model by Space Radar (spaceradar.ai), MIT License

Canonical: https://models.spaceradar.ai/change-5/

## 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 pictures (China News Service, CC BY 4.0).

built by this project in code (release 1.3.0 stage W3-c's scripts, one a craft, on W1-c's part library, kept with the stage's notes), from the cited dimensions and the pictures under `references`; no image-to-3D model was used, and no published mesh (CNSA publishes none under terms that allow a derivative, and NASA's 3D Resources and NASA Science's 3D models have none of these craft; read 2026-10-20)

## Dimensions

- Span: 4.76 m
- Body above ground: 0.83 m
- Drill string: 2.5 m

Source: eoPortal, 'Chang'e-5', https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/chang-e-5, OPENED 2026-10-20: 'The Chang'e-5 lander in its structure is identical to the Chang'e-3 lander' (except the ascender's fittings and the sampling gear), so the Chang'e 3 numbers hold: eoPortal, 'Chang'e-3': 'a vehicle span of 4.76 m', 'the lander body rests 0.83 m above the ground'. Chang'e-5: 'two solar arrays that can be opened and closed on command'; 'a four-degree of freedom robotic arm'; 'The end effector of the arm includes a scoop'; 'a coring drill'; 'The Ascent vehicle resides on the top deck of the lander using structural attachments'; 'the first free-standing Chinese national flag'. zh.wikipedia, '嫦娥五号', OPENED 2026-10-20: '着上组合体背后用于容纳2.5米长钻杆的圆柱体结构' (the cylinder on the back of the stack that holds the 2.5 m drill string). OURS: the arrays 2 x 1.25 x 1.05 m a side flat at the deck, the seat's ring 1.44 m across and 0.5 m tall, the arm's 2.1 and 2.7 m booms, the drill column 2.16 m, the flag's 0.6 x 0.4 m

## References

- [Chang-e-5-Lander-Flag](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chang-e-5-Lander-Flag.png), China News Service (CC BY 4.0 (China News Service; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-20))
- [Chang-e 5 assembly factory test 1](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chang-e_5_assembly_factory_test_1.png), China News Service (CC BY 4.0 (China News Service; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-20))
- [Chang-e 5 lander ascender assembly test](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chang-e_5_lander_ascender_assembly_test.png), China News Service (CC BY 4.0 (China News Service; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-20))
- [Chang'e-5 mockup at CSTM 01](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chang%27e-5_mockup_at_CSTM_01.jpg), Shujianyang (CC BY-SA 4.0 (Shujianyang; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-20))