# Hope (Emirates Mars Mission) 3D model

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

Free 3D model of Hope (Emirates Mars Mission), a deep-space probe, built from published dimensions by Space Radar. 8,544 triangles, 66 kB glTF, MIT.

- **Class:** Deep-space probes
- **Mission:** Planetary science
- **Triangles:** 8,544
- **File:** hope.glb, 66 kB, glTF 2.0 binary (meshopt)
- **Look:** Flat colours
- **Size:** 2.9 m across
- **Made:** Built from dimensions
- **Added:** 2026-10-20
- **Download:** https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/main/site/models/hope.glb
- **Mirror:** https://git.sara-agent.org/sara-projects/space-radar/raw/branch/main/site/models/hope.glb
- **Viewer:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/model/?id=hope
- **On the live map:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/#at=deep-hope
- **Licence:** MIT (https://github.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/blob/main/LICENSE)
- **Credit:** Hope (Emirates Mars Mission) 3D model by Space Radar (spaceradar.ai), MIT License

Canonical: https://models.spaceradar.ai/hope/

## 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 flight craft).

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: MBRSC publishes no model of Hope, and NASA has none (searched 2026-10-20); the only free pictures are two photographs of the mock-up at IAC 2021 (CC BY-SA 4.0), looked at only, and MBRSC's own photographs and renders (in eoPortal) were looked at only. NO PICTURE IS IN THE FILE

## Dimensions

- Body: 2.37 m
- Body height: 2.9 m
- Hga: 1.85 m

Source: eoPortal, 'EMM Hope', https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/emm-hope, OPENED 2026-10-20: 'It is a hexagonal prism, 2.37 m wide by 2.90 m tall, constructed of honeycomb aluminum panels with composite facesheets, with three solar panel wings affixed to the top platform.'; 'In space, Hope generates and stores power using two deployable solar arrays and batteries and communicates with Earth-based ground antennas using a 1.85 m diameter high gain antenna and coupled low gain antennas.'; 'through a 1.5 m diameter high-gain directional dish antenna mounted on the top deck of the spacecraft'; 'a redundant pair of star trackers'; 'Propulsion is provided by four to six 120 N thrusters mounted on the bottom of the spacecraft'; 'The EMM Hope probe carries three scientific instruments mounted on one side of the spacecraft.' The page says both 1.85 m and 1.5 m for the dish, and both two arrays and three wings: 1.85 m and two wings (MBRSC's photograph of the deployed craft) are built. OURS: the wings' panels 1.36 x 1.40 m and their place, the dish's depth and cone, the instruments' boxes.

## References

- [Emirates Mars Mission mockup at IAC 2021 01 (cropped)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emirates_Mars_Mission_mockup_at_IAC_2021_01_(cropped).jpg), BugWarp (CC BY-SA 4.0 (BugWarp; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-20): share-alike, LOOKED AT ONLY for the stowed panel, the instrument face and the dish; not fetched by the tool and not in any file. It is the one free photograph of the craft's shape, so the pull request's contact sheet shows it beside the model with its credit and licence (that sheet is CC BY-SA 4.0))
- [emm-hope](https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/emm-hope), MBRSC / AETOSWire (MBRSC's photograph 'of the deployed EMM Hope spacecraft at MBRSC prior to shipment (image credit: AETOSWire)' (eoPortal Figure 4), no free licence: LOOKED AT ONLY for the two wings and the black dish, not fetched by the tool)