Hope (Emirates Mars Mission)
Shape built from published dimensions and pictures; details simplified.
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Pictures 4
Three-quarter view
From the side
From behind
From above
About this model
Hope (Emirates Mars Mission) is one of the 203 3D models Space Radar made itself: a deep-space probe, 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 8,544 triangles in a 66 kB glTF file, and is 2.9 m across at full scale.
On Space Radar’s live map it is drawn where the craft is today. Open it on the map.
Dimensions and their sources
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Body | 2.37 m |
| Body height | 2.9 m |
| Hga | 1.85 m |
eoPortal, 'EMM Hope', 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. (read 2026-10-20)
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).
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: 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
Where the map uses it. JPL Horizons -62, Hope (data/sample.js `deep-hope`), the Emirates Mars Mission, the UAE's Mars weather orbiter, drawn from Mars: a gold hexagonal prism under a 1.85 m dish, two wings of two panels, its three instruments on one face. It was the generic probe; public #1088
Licence note. This project's own shape, under this repository's licence, built from published numbers (facts). NO FREE PICTURE OF THE FLIGHT CRAFT WAS USED: the mock-up's photographs (CC BY-SA 4.0, share-alike) and MBRSC's photograph of the deployed craft (no free licence) were looked at only and nothing of them is in the file. NO LOGO, FLAG AND NO LETTERING is on the mesh.
References 2
What the shape was compared with. None of these pictures is in the file.
- Emirates Mars Mission mockup at IAC 2021 01 (cropped)BugWarpCC 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-hopeMBRSC / AETOSWireMBRSC'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
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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:
Hope (Emirates Mars Mission) 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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