# CSES 3D model

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

Free 3D model of CSES, a satellite, built from published dimensions by Space Radar. 4,062 triangles, 35 kB glTF, MIT.

- **Class:** Satellites
- **Mission:** Technology and science
- **Triangles:** 4,062
- **File:** cses.glb, 35 kB, glTF 2.0 binary (meshopt)
- **Look:** Physically based
- **Size:** 4.5 m across
- **Made:** Built from dimensions
- **Added:** 2026-10-27
- **NORAD:** 43194
- **Download:** https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/main/site/models/cses.glb
- **Mirror:** https://git.sara-agent.org/sara-projects/space-radar/raw/branch/main/site/models/cses.glb
- **Viewer:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/model/?id=cses
- **On the live map:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/#at=sat-43194
- **Licence:** MIT (https://github.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/blob/main/LICENSE)
- **Credit:** CSES 3D model by Space Radar (spaceradar.ai), MIT License

Canonical: https://models.spaceradar.ai/cses/

## 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 (no free picture of the craft).

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 2026-10-26, and NASA Science's resources have none of this craft; the agency pages were searched, and no agency model of it under usable terms was found); no CSES picture is in the file: the collaboration's labelled illustration and artist's views (eoPortal Figures 0, 12, 13, 15) were looked at only

## Dimensions

- Cube: 1.4 m
- Mass: 730 kg
- Efd boom: 4.5 m
- Langmuir boom: 0.5 m

Source: eoPortal, https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/cses, OPENED 2026-10-26: 'CSES is a 3-axes stabilized satellite, based on the Chinese CAST2000 platform, with a mass of about 730 kg, a size of 1.4 x 1.4 x 1.4 m, and is fitted with a lone deployable solar array.'; 'It consists of about four meter long independent identical spherical sensors (60 mm) installed at the tips of four booms (4.5m long, in tetrahedral orientation)'; 'a pair of spherical Langmuir Probes with diameters of 5 cm and 1 cm, respectively, installed at the tip of booms 50 cm long'; 2025 update: 'the Plasma Analyzer Package (PAP-02) replaces the original Langmuir Probe'. OURS: the wing's three panels 4.2 x 1.2 m, the magnetometer boom's 4.6 m, the ring's size, the instruments' boxes.

## References

- [cses](https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/cses), CSES collaboration (CSES collaboration pictures as shown by eoPortal: LOOKED AT ONLY, never fetched by the tool and on no sheet)