# Hubble Space Telescope 3D model

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

Free 3D model of Hubble Space Telescope, a space telescope, built from published dimensions by Space Radar. 43,257 triangles, 408 kB glTF, MIT.

- **Class:** Space telescopes
- **Mission:** Astronomy
- **Triangles:** 43,257
- **File:** hubble.glb, 408 kB, glTF 2.0 binary (meshopt)
- **Look:** Physically based
- **Size:** 13 m across
- **Made:** Built from dimensions
- **Added:** 2026-10-21
- **NORAD:** 20580
- **Download:** https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/main/site/models/hubble.glb
- **Mirror:** https://git.sara-agent.org/sara-projects/space-radar/raw/branch/main/site/models/hubble.glb
- **Viewer:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/model/?id=hubble
- **On the live map:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/#at=sat-20580
- **Licence:** MIT (https://github.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/blob/main/LICENSE)
- **Credit:** Hubble Space Telescope 3D model by Space Radar (spaceradar.ai), MIT License

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

## 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 NASA's and ESA's published dimensions; compared with NASA's Servicing Mission 4 photographs (public domain).

built by this project in code (release 1.3.0 stage W3-a's part library, lib.py, and one script a craft, kept with the stage's notes); no image-to-3D model was used, and no published mesh: NASA's 3D Resources (1 583 paths) and NASA Science's 3D models have none of this craft (read 2026-10-20)

## Dimensions

- Length: 13.2 m
- Diameter: 4.2 m
- Array length: 7.56 m
- Array width: 2.45 m
- Door: 3 m

Source: ESA/Hubble fact sheet (https://esahubble.org/about/general/fact_sheet/), OPENED 2026-10-20: 'Length: 13.2 m, diameter: 4.2 m', solar arrays 2.45 x 7.56 m (built; NASA gives 7.1 x 2.6 m). NASA HST Media Reference Guide, section 5 (https://lhea.gsfc.nasa.gov/archive/sm3b/art/pdf/media-guide/sec5.pdf): the aperture door 'approximately 10 feet (3 m) in diameter', 'opens a maximum of 105 degrees' (built open 105 degrees); the light shield and the forward shell each about 4 m long and 3 m across; the aft shroud '11.5 feet (3.5 m) long and 14 feet (4.3 m) in diameter'; the equipment section's '10 bays for equipment and two bays to support aft trunnion pins and scuff plates'; low-gain antennas 180 degrees apart. OURS: the masts, the 1.3 m high-gain dishes, the boxes, the handrails, the blankets' panel and fold pattern

## References

- [HST-SM4](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HST-SM4.jpeg), NASA (crew of STS-125) (Public domain (NASA; Commons LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-20))
- [View of Hubble after Being Released from the Shuttle Atlantis (28136528922)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:View_of_Hubble_after_Being_Released_from_the_Shuttle_Atlantis_(28136528922).jpg), NASA (Public domain (NASA; Commons LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-20))
- [Hubble Released 2009](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hubble_Released_2009.jpg), NASA (STS-125) (Public domain (NASA; Commons LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-20))
- [S125E011586, STS-125, view of HST during its release](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:S125E011586_-_STS-125_-_View_of_HST_during_its_release_from_the_Shuttle_Atlantis_-_DPLA_-_a064815976c605ee2a3e8a11ad1c7cf4.jpg), NASA JSC (Public domain (NASA; Commons LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-20))
- [NASA 3D Resources, Hubble Space Telescope (A)](https://github.com/nasa/NASA-3D-Resources), NASA (Public domain (NASA media usage guidelines))