# DAMPE 3D model

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

Free 3D model of DAMPE, a satellite, built from published dimensions by Space Radar. 5,568 triangles, 41 kB glTF, MIT.

- **Class:** Satellites
- **Mission:** Technology and science
- **Triangles:** 5,568
- **File:** dampe.glb, 41 kB, glTF 2.0 binary (meshopt)
- **Look:** Physically based
- **Size:** 2.5 m across
- **Made:** Built from dimensions
- **Added:** 2026-10-27
- **NORAD:** 41173
- **Download:** https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/main/site/models/dampe.glb
- **Mirror:** https://git.sara-agent.org/sara-projects/space-radar/raw/branch/main/site/models/dampe.glb
- **Viewer:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/model/?id=dampe
- **On the live map:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/#at=sat-41173
- **Licence:** MIT (https://github.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/blob/main/LICENSE)
- **Credit:** DAMPE 3D model by Space Radar (spaceradar.ai), MIT License

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

## 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 CAS or China Daily picture is in the file: they were looked at only, for the layout

## Dimensions

- Payload x: 1.12 m
- Payload y: 1.12 m
- Payload z: 2.52 m
- Mass: 1900 kg
- Power: 850 W

Source: eoPortal, https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/dampe, OPENED 2026-10-26: 'DAMPE is an astrophysics observatory with a mass of about 1900 kg and a design life of 3 years (goal of 5 years). The spacecraft is outfitted with two-power generating solar arrays providing a total power of around 850 W.'; 'Its dimensions, including the outer envelop, are: 1.12 m x 1.12 m x 2.52 m.' (the page says it of the silicon-tungsten tracker's paragraph; the pictures show a body about as tall as wide, so the body is not drawn 2.52 m long); 'The total thickness of the calorimeter is equivalent to 31 radiation lengths', BGO bars 2.5 x 2.5 x 60 cm. OURS: the body 1.5 x 1.5 x 1.3 m, the wings' 3.9 x 1.5 m.

## References

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