# Elektro-L 3D model

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

Free 3D model of Elektro-L, a satellite, built from published dimensions by Space Radar. 10,638 triangles, 64 kB glTF, MIT.

- **Class:** Satellites
- **Mission:** Weather and climate
- **Triangles:** 10,638
- **File:** elektro-l.glb, 64 kB, glTF 2.0 binary (meshopt)
- **Look:** Flat colours
- **Size:** 4.5 m across
- **Made:** Built from dimensions
- **Added:** 2026-11-05
- **NORAD:** 41105, 44903, 55506, 67756
- **Download:** https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/main/site/models/elektro-l.glb
- **Mirror:** https://git.sara-agent.org/sara-projects/space-radar/raw/branch/main/site/models/elektro-l.glb
- **Viewer:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/model/?id=elektro-l
- **On the live map:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/#at=sat-41105
- **Licence:** MIT (https://github.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/blob/main/LICENSE)
- **Credit:** Elektro-L 3D model by Space Radar (spaceradar.ai), MIT License

Canonical: https://models.spaceradar.ai/elektro-l/

## 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 published solar-array area and photographs of the Elektro-L model by Pavel Kolotilov (CC BY-SA 3.0), Bin im Garten (CC BY-SA 3.0) and MKonair (CC BY-SA 2.0).

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 on GitHub, 1 583 paths read 2026-11-05, has only RADARSAT-1 of the radar craft and none of this one; the survey of 2026-11-05 found no agency model of it under usable terms)

## Dimensions

- Solar array: 8.17 m²
- Wing long: 4.48 m
- Wing wide: 1.83 m
- Deck across: 1.9 m
- Dish: 1.15 m

Source: Russian Wikipedia, https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Электро-Л, OPENED 2026-11-05: 'Система электропитания состоит из одного фотоэлектрического генератора площадью 8,17 м²' (ONE generator); the infobox: 'Длина 5,5 м', 'Ширина 2,5 м', 'трёхкаскадные GaAs, 8,2 м²'; 'платформа «Навигатор», выполненная в негерметичном исполнении'; 'Стартовая масса аппарата — 1797 кг'; 'Масса комплекса целевой аппаратуры составляет 550 кг'. THE ENGLISH ARTICLE GIVES NO DIMENSIONS. THE TWO CITED LENGTHS ARE NOT SAID TO BELONG TO ANYTHING (the infobox gives no axis), and the file is built to neither: the area is the only cited number that fixes a size. READ OFF THE THREE PHOTOGRAPHS: one wing of three equal panels whose long side is 2.45 times its width, so 8.17 m2 makes it 1.83 m by 4.48 m; the white Earth deck as wide as the wing (1.9 m across its flats); the two dishes about 0.6 of the deck, so 1.15 m. (Half the deck, the yoke and the wing make 5.5 m from the body's axis to the wing's tip, which is a reading of the infobox's length and not a citation.) OURS: every other size and place, the body's height, the units' sizes, the helix's, the engine pods' and the louvres', the eight frame struts and the colours.

## References

- [Model of Electro-L Meteo-satellite, Paris Air Show 2011](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Model_of_Electro-L_Meteo-satellite,_Paris_Air_Show_2011.jpg), Pavel Kolotilov (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0) (CC BY-SA 3.0 (Pavel Kolotilov; the Commons API's LicenseShortName, read 2026-11-05))
- [ILA Berlin 2012 PD 062](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ILA_Berlin_2012_PD_062.JPG), Bin im Garten (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0) (CC BY-SA 3.0 (Bin im Garten; the Commons API's LicenseShortName, read 2026-11-05))
- [Electro-L Cebit 2011](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Electro-L_Cebit_2011.jpg), MKonair (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0) (CC BY-SA 2.0 (MKonair; the Commons API's LicenseShortName, read 2026-11-05))