FORMOSAT-7 (COSMIC-2)
Shape built from published dimensions and pictures; details simplified.
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Pictures 4
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About this model
FORMOSAT-7 (COSMIC-2) 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 7,920 triangles in a 52 kB glTF file, and is 1.3 m across at full scale.
On Space Radar’s live map it is drawn for 6 catalogued objects, each where its published orbit puts it now. Open it on the map.
Dimensions and their sources
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Stowed x | 1 m |
| Stowed y | 1.25 m |
| Stowed z | 1.25 m |
| Mass | 277.8 kg |
eoPortal, eoportal.org/satellite-missions/stp2-formosat-7, OPENED 2026-10-26: 'Spacecraft size (stowed) 1000 mm x 1250 mm x 1250 mm'; 'Launch mass (wet) 277.8 kg'; 'The heritage baseline employed for the spacecraft is the SSTL-150 bus'; Figure 8's labels (SSTL): 'TGRS POD Antenna (1 of 2)', 'TGRS RO Antenna (1 of 2)', 'IVM', 'RF Beacon Antenna', 'Solar array', 'Solar array drive mechanism', 'Hold down release system x 4', 'Separation sys passive ring'. OURS: the wing's two 1.2 x 1.1 m panels and every size of a fitting.
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 SSTL, NSPO or NOAA picture is in the file: eoPortal's SSTL figures and a CC BY-SA 2.0 photograph of a model were looked at only; NOAA's launch pictures (public domain) show the launch and not the craft
Where the map uses it. NORAD 44343, 44349, 44350, 44351, 44353 and 44358, FORMOSAT 7-1 to 7-6, in the live saved data of 2026-10-12: the six radio-occultation satellites of Taiwan's NSPO and NOAA on SSTL's SSTL-150 bus. They wore the shape of their class; public #1109
Licence note. This project's own shape, under this repository's licence, built from published numbers (facts). The free pictures on Commons are of the launch (public domain, NOAA) or share-alike (a CC BY-SA 2.0 photograph of a model, CC BY-SA 4.0 of a part), and SSTL's figures are the maker's: all 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 2
What the shape was compared with. None of these pictures is in the file.
- stp2-formosat-7SSTL, NSPOSSTL / NSPO figures as shown by eoPortal (image credit: SSTL, NARLabs): LOOKED AT ONLY, never fetched by the tool and on no sheet
- FORMOSAT-7.jpgWikimedia CommonsCC BY-SA 2.0 (read 2026-10-26): share-alike, 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:
FORMOSAT-7 (COSMIC-2) 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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