Chang'e 5
Shape built from published dimensions and pictures; details simplified.
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Pictures 4
Three-quarter view
From the side
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From above
About this model
Chang'e 5 is one of the 203 3D models Space Radar made itself: a lander or rover, 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 15,317 triangles in a 118 kB glTF file, and is 4.8 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 |
|---|---|
| Span | 4.76 m |
| Body above ground | 0.83 m |
| Drill string | 2.5 m |
eoPortal, 'Chang'e-5', 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 (read 2026-10-20)
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).
The full record
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)
Where the map uses it. the change-5 and change-6 landing sites (registry/sites.yaml), Oceanus Procellarum and the Apollo basin: the Chang'e 5 sample-return lander as it stands now, the ascender gone from its seat, the arm raised, the drill's column, the flag on its boom. Chang'e 6's lander is the same design (its small foreign payloads are not drawn). Each was the generic lander, which is still what is drawn while this file is on its way; public #1126
Licence note. CC BY 4.0 (China News Service's pictures of the flight lander in test and its rendering of the flag on the deck): looked at, with credit; nothing of them is in the file. The full-size mock-ups' photographs are CC BY-SA 4.0 and were looked at only. The shape is this project's, under this repository's licence, built from published numbers (facts).
References 4
What the shape was compared with. None of these pictures is in the file.
- Chang-e-5-Lander-FlagChina News ServiceCC BY 4.0 (China News Service; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-20)
- Chang-e 5 assembly factory test 1China News ServiceCC BY 4.0 (China News Service; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-20)
- Chang-e 5 lander ascender assembly testChina News ServiceCC BY 4.0 (China News Service; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-20)
- Chang'e-5 mockup at CSTM 01ShujianyangCC BY-SA 4.0 (Shujianyang; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-20)
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:
Chang'e 5 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:
<iframe src="https://www.spaceradar.ai/model/?id=change-5" title="Chang'e 5, 3D model by Space Radar" width="600" height="450" loading="lazy" style="border:0;max-width:100%"></iframe>Related models
