# CubeSat 12U with wings 3D model

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

Free 3D model of CubeSat 12U with wings, a satellite, built from published dimensions by Space Radar. 1,348 triangles, 25 kB glTF, MIT.

- **Class:** Satellites
- **Mission:** Technology and science
- **Triangles:** 1,348
- **File:** cubesat-12u-wings.glb, 25 kB, glTF 2.0 binary (meshopt)
- **Look:** Physically based
- **Size:** 0.4 m across
- **Made:** Built from dimensions
- **Added:** 2026-11-08
- **Download:** https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/main/site/models/cubesat-12u-wings.glb
- **Mirror:** https://git.sara-agent.org/sara-projects/space-radar/raw/branch/main/site/models/cubesat-12u-wings.glb
- **Viewer:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/model/?id=cubesat-12u-wings
- **Licence:** MIT (https://github.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/blob/main/LICENSE)
- **Credit:** CubeSat 12U with wings 3D model by Space Radar (spaceradar.ai), MIT License

Canonical: https://models.spaceradar.ai/cubesat-12u-wings/

## 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 the CubeSat Design Specification's sizes; wings read off a NASA flight photograph (public domain), looked at only.

built by this project in code (tools/cubesat-builder/cube.py on the part library of tools/stage-builder/lib.py); NASA 3D Resources' 'CubeSat - 1 RU Generic' and '2 RU Generic' were asked for in 2026-10 and are not in the repository's list of shipped models; no image-to-3D model was used and no published mesh

## Dimensions

- Body x: 0.2263 m
- Body y: 0.2263 m
- Body z: 0.366 m
- Rail width: 0.0085 m
- Wing out: 0.095 m
- Panels per wing: 3
- Wing length: 0.351 m

Source: CubeSat Design Specification rev. 14.1 (cubesat.org, 2022-02-09): the body is 0.2263 x 0.2263 x 0.366 m with rails at least 8.5 mm wide, as read on 2026-10-08 (the comment above buildCubeSat in site/js/scene/models.js) and checked on 2026-11-07 against the cubesat-specs package page (12U 226.3 x 226.3 x 366 mm). WHAT THE STANDARD DOES NOT FIX, AND IS OURS: the two 40 x 80 mm cells a unit on each long face, the end plates' fittings (an aperture with a baffle, a patch antenna, a sun sensor on the +Z end; a separation switch, a remove-before-flight socket and an access port on the -Z end), the whip antenna, and the deployed wings: three hinged panels a side, each 0.095 m out by 0.351 m along the body, read off the public-domain NASA photograph of a Planet Dove with its wings open (looked at only); GCAT's `Shape` says 'two panels', not their size.

## References

- [CubeSat Design Specification rev. 14.1 (cubesat.org); the cubesat-specs form-factor table (PyPI)](https://pypi.org/project/cubesat-specs/), The CubeSat Program, Cal Poly SLO (the standard's numbers are facts; the package page states them (read 2026-11-07), nothing is copied)
- [General Catalog of Artificial Space Objects (GCAT), satcat.tsv of 2026-11-06](https://planet4589.org/space/gcat/tsv/cat/satcat.tsv), Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0 (the catalogue's own statement))
- [ISS-49 CubeSat deploying.jpg (NASA / Kate Rubins)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ISS-49_CubeSat_deploying.jpg), NASA / Kate Rubins (Public domain (NASA; Commons LicenseShortName, read 2026-11-07))
- [Two Cubesats from Planet Labs.jpg (Expedition 38 crew, NASA) and ISS-47 CubeSat deployment - Dove satellites (3).jpg (NASA)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Two_Cubesats_from_Planet_Labs.jpg), NASA (Public domain (NASA; Commons LicenseShortName, read 2026-11-07))