# Kanopus-V 3D model

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

Free 3D model of Kanopus-V, a satellite, built from published dimensions by Space Radar. 7,928 triangles, 55 kB glTF, MIT.

- **Class:** Satellites
- **Mission:** Earth observation
- **Triangles:** 7,928
- **File:** kanopus-v.glb, 55 kB, glTF 2.0 binary (meshopt)
- **Look:** Flat colours
- **Size:** 1.8 m across
- **Made:** Built from dimensions
- **Added:** 2026-10-27
- **NORAD:** 43180, 43181, 43876, 43877
- **Download:** https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/main/site/models/kanopus-v.glb
- **Mirror:** https://git.sara-agent.org/sara-projects/space-radar/raw/branch/main/site/models/kanopus-v.glb
- **Viewer:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/model/?id=kanopus-v
- **On the live map:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/#at=sat-43180
- **Licence:** MIT (https://github.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/blob/main/LICENSE)
- **Credit:** Kanopus-V 3D model by Space Radar (spaceradar.ai), MIT License

Canonical: https://models.spaceradar.ai/kanopus-v/

## 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 and VNIIEM's schematic of Kanopus-V (CC0).

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's 3D Resources (1 583 paths, read 2026-10-27) has none of these craft, and no agency named here publishes a model of its own under terms that allow one

## Dimensions

- Focal length long: 1.7975 m
- Focal length short: 0.3595 m
- Mass: 450 kg

Source: eoPortal, https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/kanopus-v-1, OPENED 2026-10-27: 'The spacecraft has a launch mass of ~ 450 kg and a design life of 5 years'; 'PSS (Panchromatic Imaging System) ... Focal length 1797.5 mm'; 'MSS (Multispectral Imaging System) ... Focal length 359.5 mm'. NO PAGE READ GIVES A SIZE: OURS are the body's 1.1 x 1.0 x 1.5 m, the tubes' diameters and lengths (the long one for the long focal length), the dishes' 0.42 m, the ladder's 1.0 m and the panels' 1.3 x 0.8 m (so that a wing is about the size a 450 kg craft needs), everything read off VNIIEM's schematic against the body. Which face is the Earth face is read off the picture's camera end: no page says.

## References

- [Kanopus-V КА Канопус-В (a schematic)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kanopus-V_КА_Канопус-В.jpg), El Salvador (Wikimedia Commons) (CC0 (the Commons API's LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-27))
- [Maquette satellite Canopus-V](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maquette_satellite_Canopus-V_DSC_0073.JPG), Pline (Wikimedia Commons) (CC BY-SA 4.0 (Pline, own work; read 2026-10-27): share-alike, LOOKED AT ONLY)