Globalstar (second generation)
Shape built from published dimensions and pictures; details simplified.
Turn it in 3D
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Pictures 4
Three-quarter view
From the side
From behind
From above
About this model
Globalstar (second generation) 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 3,776 triangles in a 26 kB glTF file, and is 12 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 |
|---|---|
| Length | 4 m |
| Diameter | 2 m |
| Span | 12 m |
| Mass | 715 kg |
| Panels per wing | 3 |
| Power bol | 2.4 kW |
J. McDowell, 'General Catalog of Artificial Space Objects' (GCAT), planet4589.org/space/gcat , satcat.tsv of 2026-10-26, OPENED 2026-10-27 (licence on the page: 'GCAT is released under the Creative Commons CC-BY licence'); columns Length, Diameter, Span, Shape: Globalstar M073 to M097 and M087 'Length 4.0, Diameter 2.0, Span 12.0' m, shape 'Trap Cyl + 2 Pan', mass 715 kg, maker Thales Alenia Space. Gunter's Space Page, space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/globalstar-2.htm , OPENED 2026-10-27: 'ELiTeBus-1000'; '2 deployable solar arrays, 2.4 kW (bol), 1.7 kW (eol), batteries'; '16 C-to-S-band transponders, 16 L-to-C-band transponders'; 'launch mass of approximately 700 kg'. Wikipedia, 'Globalstar', OPENED 2026-10-27: 'A Globalstar satellite has two body-mounted, Earth-facing array antennas'. NOT PUBLISHED, OURS: the body's size, the antennas' size, the panels' width. (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 (McDowell's GCAT, CC BY; 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 Science's 3D models and NASA's 3D Resources have none of this craft, and the maker and the operator publish none under terms that allow a derivative); the layout and its sources are under `references` and `dimensions`
Where the map uses it. GLOBALSTAR M073 to M097 and M087 (the 25 second-generation craft): Thales Alenia Space's ELiTeBus-1000, a flat body with two round Earth-facing antennas and two three-panel wings, 12 m tip to tip. They were drawn as generic satellites; the 2007 spares are first generation and the 2026 launch a third, neither this shape; public #1154
Licence note. The numbers are McDowell's GCAT (CC BY 4.0, cited under `dimensions`); the shape is this project's, under this repository's licence. NO FREE PICTURE OF THE CRAFT WAS FOUND: the layout was read off an artist's render on Gunter's Space Page, LOOKED AT ONLY (not fetched by the tool, on no sheet, nothing of it 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.
- globalstar-2__1Gunter's Space Page (the render's maker is not named there)an artist's render on Gunter's Space Page (copyright of its maker): LOOKED AT ONLY for the layout: the flat gold-edged body, the two round antennas on its Earth face, three-panel wings; not fetched by the tool, on no sheet, nothing of it in the file
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:
Globalstar (second generation) 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=globalstar-2" title="Globalstar (second generation), 3D model by Space Radar" width="600" height="450" loading="lazy" style="border:0;max-width:100%"></iframe>Related models
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