Kanopus-V
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
Kanopus-V is one of the 203 3D models Space Radar made itself: a satellite, 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 7,928 triangles in a 55 kB glTF file, and is 1.8 m across at full scale.
On Space Radar’s live map it is drawn for 4 catalogued objects, each where its published orbit puts it now. Open it on the map.
Dimensions and their sources
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Focal length long | 1.7975 m |
| Focal length short | 0.3595 m |
| Mass | 450 kg |
eoPortal, 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.
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).
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: 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
Where the map uses it. NORAD 43180, 43181, 43876 and 43877 (KANOPUS-V 3 to 6), in the active catalogue of 2026-10-26: Roscosmos's 450 kg fire-watching and mapping satellites of VNIIEM, a box with a long and a short camera tube, two gold X-band dishes and two wings of six panels. KANOPUS-V-IK carries infrared cameras and keeps the generic shape; public #1145
Licence note. VNIIEM's schematic of Kanopus-V (Commons, CC0) was looked at for the layout, with credit; two photographs of models of the craft (CC BY-SA 4.0, share-alike) were LOOKED AT ONLY. Nothing of any picture is in the file. ROSCOSMOS'S OWN SITE ANSWERED 403 to this project's request and no agency model was found. The shape is this project's, under this repository's licence. NO LOGO AND NO LETTERING is on the mesh.
References 2
What the shape was compared with. None of these pictures is in the file.
- Kanopus-V КА Канопус-В (a schematic)El Salvador (Wikimedia Commons)CC0 (the Commons API's LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-27)
- Maquette satellite Canopus-VPline (Wikimedia Commons)CC BY-SA 4.0 (Pline, own work; read 2026-10-27): share-alike, LOOKED AT ONLY
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:
Kanopus-V 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=kanopus-v" title="Kanopus-V, 3D model by Space Radar" width="600" height="450" loading="lazy" style="border:0;max-width:100%"></iframe>Related models
