Crew Dragon
Shape built from published dimensions and pictures; details simplified.
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Pictures 4
Three-quarter view
From the side
From behind
From above
About this model
Crew Dragon is one of the 203 3D models Space Radar made itself: a crewed craft or station, 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 8,268 triangles in a 53 kB glTF file, and is 8.1 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 |
|---|---|
| Height with trunk | 8.1 m |
| Diameter | 4 m |
| Trunk diameter | 3.7 m |
SpaceX, spacex.com/vehicles/dragon (the page is drawn by script; its data file spacex.com/3850.6a270eb20a4c2080.js was opened 2026-10-13): 'Height' '8.1m' '/ 26.7 ft', 'Diameter' '4 m' '/ 13 ft', 'The Dragon spacecraft is equipped with 16 Draco thrusters', 'One half of the trunk is covered in solar panels'. SPACEX DISAGREES WITH ITSELF: its Falcon 9 page's data file (spacex.com/2343.25ddd7bb77e7b318.js, opened the same day) gives Dragon 'Diameter' '3.7 m' '/ 12 ft'; read here as 4 m at the capsule's base and 3.7 m for the trunk, which neither sentence says. Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Dragon_2, infobox, opened 2026-10-13: '4.5 m capsule only', '8.1 m capsule with trunk', diameter '4 m', width '3.7 m'; and 'The spacecraft's nose cone protects the docking port and four forward-facing thrusters during ascent and reentry. This component pivots open for in-space operations.'; 'eight SuperDraco engines arranged in four redundant pairs'. NO NASA PAGE WITH DIMENSIONS WAS FOUND. NOT CITED: the sidewall's 15 degrees (published for the first Dragon only; kept), the nose cone's 1.05 m, how the 8.1 m is shared (3.7 m of trunk is built, 4.4 m of capsule with its nose closed), the pods' size, the fins' size, the windows (read 2026-10-13)
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 NASA photographs of the Crew Dragon.
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
Where the map uses it. any record on the stations layer whose name has the words CREW DRAGON (today CREW DRAGON 13): SpaceX's crewed Dragon 2. It was, and while this file is on its way still is, the procedural Dragon (scene/models.js `dragon`: a cone on a drum with four boxes); public #937
Licence note. Public domain (the NASA photographs it was compared with); the shape is this project's, under this repository's licence. NO LOGO AND NO LETTERING is on the mesh: the craft's maker's marks, NASA's insignia and the flag the photographs show are not drawn
References 3
What the shape was compared with. None of these pictures is in the file.
- Iss058e027464 The uncrewed SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft on approach to the station's Harmony moduleNASAPublic domain (NASA)
- The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour departs the International Space Station 04NASA/Mark T. Vande HeiPublic domain (NASA/Mark T. Vande Hei)
- The SpaceX Crew Dragon as it approached the International Space Station (iss063e021563)NASA/Chris CassidyPublic domain (NASA/Chris Cassidy)
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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:
Crew Dragon 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=dragon-crew" title="Crew Dragon, 3D model by Space Radar" width="600" height="450" loading="lazy" style="border:0;max-width:100%"></iframe>Related models
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