DAMPE
Shape built from published dimensions and pictures; details simplified.
Turn it in 3D
Open the 3D viewer (www.spaceradar.ai).
The viewer loads when you ask: about 700 kB the first time (three.js and the model), much less after.
About this model
DAMPE is one of the 203 3D models Space Radar made itself: a satellite, 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 5,568 triangles in a 41 kB glTF file, and is 2.5 m across at full scale.
On Space Radar’s live map it is drawn for the object with NORAD catalogue number 41173, where its published orbit puts it now. Open it on the map.
Dimensions and their sources
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Payload x | 1.12 m |
| Payload y | 1.12 m |
| Payload z | 2.52 m |
| Mass | 1900 kg |
| Power | 850 W |
eoPortal, 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.
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).
The full record
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
Where the map uses it. NORAD 41173, DAMPE, in the live saved data of 2026-10-12: China's dark-matter particle explorer, a gold box with a black detector face on a launch ring between two three-panel wings. It wore the shape of its class (a box with two wings); public #1104
Licence note. This project's own shape, under this repository's licence, built from published numbers (facts). NO FREE PICTURE OF THE CRAFT WAS FOUND: CAS's illustrations and photograph as shown by eoPortal were looked at only (named under references) and nothing of them is in the file. NO LOGO AND NO LETTERING is on the mesh.
References 1
What the shape was compared with. None of these pictures is in the file.
- dampeCAS / DAMPE collaborationCAS and China Daily pictures as shown by eoPortal: LOOKED AT ONLY, never fetched by the tool and on no sheet
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:
DAMPE 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:
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Shape built from published dimensions and pictures; details simplified.