Hubble Space Telescope
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
Hubble Space Telescope is one of the 203 3D models Space Radar made itself: a space telescope, 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 43,257 triangles in a 408 kB glTF file, and is 13 m across at full scale.
On Space Radar’s live map it is drawn for the object with NORAD catalogue number 20580, where its published orbit puts it now. Open it on the map.
Dimensions and their sources
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Length | 13.2 m |
| Diameter | 4.2 m |
| Array length | 7.56 m |
| Array width | 2.45 m |
| Door | 3 m |
ESA/Hubble fact sheet (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 (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 (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 NASA's and ESA's published dimensions; compared with NASA's Servicing Mission 4 photographs (public domain).
The full record
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)
Where the map uses it. NORAD 20580 (HST), by id. Rebuilt in release 1.3.0 (stage W3-a) to the model quality bar and for the physically based look; it was NASA's (A) file, kept in this row's history
Licence note. The shape is this project's, under this repository's licence, built from published numbers (facts). Every photograph it was compared with is NASA's (public domain); NASA 3D Resources' Hubble Space Telescope (A) (public domain) was used for proportions only and none of its triangles is in the file.
References 5
What the shape was compared with. None of these pictures is in the file.
- HST-SM4NASA (crew of STS-125)Public domain (NASA; Commons LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-20)
- View of Hubble after Being Released from the Shuttle Atlantis (28136528922)NASAPublic domain (NASA; Commons LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-20)
- Hubble Released 2009NASA (STS-125)Public domain (NASA; Commons LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-20)
- S125E011586, STS-125, view of HST during its releaseNASA JSCPublic domain (NASA; Commons LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-20)
- NASA 3D Resources, Hubble Space Telescope (A)NASAPublic domain (NASA media usage guidelines)
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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:
Hubble Space Telescope 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=hubble" title="Hubble Space Telescope, 3D model by Space Radar" width="600" height="450" loading="lazy" style="border:0;max-width:100%"></iframe>Related models
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