GEO-KOMPSAT-2A
Shape built from published dimensions and pictures; details simplified.
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Pictures 4
Three-quarter view
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From above
About this model
GEO-KOMPSAT-2A 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 8,370 triangles in a 97 kB glTF file, and is 8.9 m across at full scale.
On Space Radar’s live map it is drawn for the object with NORAD catalogue number 43823, where its published orbit puts it now. Open it on the map.
Dimensions and their sources
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Width | 2.9 m |
| Depth | 2.4 m |
| Height | 4.6 m |
| Span | 8.9 m |
Introduction of the Advanced Meteorological Imager of Geo-Kompsat-2a, Remote Sensing 13(7), 1303, mdpi.com/2072-4292/13/7/1303, OPENED 2026-10-27: 'Launch: 2.9 x 2.4 x 4.6 (m)', 'Orbit: 3.8 x 8.9 x 4.6 (m)' (we read 8.9 m as the north-south span: the 2.4 m body and one wing of two panels of 3.25 m); eoPortal, GEO-KOMPSAT-2, eoportal.org/satellite-missions/geo-kompsat-2, OPENED 2026-10-27: AMI aperture 270 mm, 'maximum commonality between GK2A and GK2B'. OURS: the box's 2.4 m north-south, 2.9 m east-west and 4.6 m along the Earth line (the order of the three numbers is our reading), the wing's width 2.8 m, every instrument's size and place, the horns (read 2026-10-27)
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; compared with photographs by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KOGL Type 1).
The full record
built by this project in code (release 1.4.0 stage r14-m4: one script a craft on release 1.3.0 W3-b's part library, lib.py and parts.py, kept with the stage's notes in ~/space-radar-handoff/release-1.4/r14-m4/build), from the cited dimensions and the pictures under `references`; no image-to-3D model was used, and no published mesh: a search for one on 2026-10-27 found none, NASA's 3D Resources has none of these craft, and KARI publishes photographs under KOGL Type 1 (attribution) and no model that was found (read 2026-10-27)
Where the map uses it. NORAD 43823 (GEO-KOMPSAT-2A) in the live saved data of 2026-10-12: Korea's geostationary weather satellite (Cheollian-2A): a gold-blanketed box, the Advanced Meteorological Imager and three gold horns on the Earth deck, one wing of two panels at the south. It wore the generic geostationary bus; public #1118. Not GEO-KOMPSAT-2B, which carries other instruments and has its own file (`gk2b`).
Licence note. No KARI picture is in the file. Compared with, with credit: KARI's own photographs of the flight model on Wikimedia Commons (KOGL Type 1: the Korean government's open licence, attribution only), looked at; nothing of them is in the file. The shape is this project's, under this repository's licence, built from published numbers (facts).
References 4
What the shape was compared with. None of these pictures is in the file.
- 발사체에 장착된 천리안 2A호(1) (1116).jpegKorea Aerospace Research Institute, KOGL Type 1KOGL Type 1 (Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-27)
- 천리안 2A호 최종 점검(1) (1087).jpegKorea Aerospace Research Institute, KOGL Type 1KOGL Type 1 (Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-27)
- 천리안 2A호 전자파 시험(1) (1058).jpegKorea Aerospace Research Institute, KOGL Type 1KOGL Type 1 (Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-27)
- 천리안 2A 조립 (976).jpegKorea Aerospace Research Institute, KOGL Type 1KOGL Type 1 (Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-27)
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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:
GEO-KOMPSAT-2A 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.
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Shape built from published dimensions and pictures; details simplified.