# Kinéis 3D model

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

Free 3D model of Kinéis, a satellite, built from published dimensions by Space Radar. 9,312 triangles, 85 kB glTF, MIT.

- **Class:** Satellites
- **Mission:** Communications
- **Triangles:** 9,312
- **File:** kineis.glb, 85 kB, glTF 2.0 binary (meshopt)
- **Look:** Physically based
- **Size:** 1.6 m across
- **Made:** Built from dimensions
- **Added:** 2026-11-08
- **NORAD:** 60079
- **Download:** https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/main/site/models/kineis.glb
- **Mirror:** https://git.sara-agent.org/sara-projects/space-radar/raw/branch/main/site/models/kineis.glb
- **Viewer:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/model/?id=kineis
- **On the live map:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/#at=sat-60079
- **Licence:** MIT (https://github.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/blob/main/LICENSE)
- **Credit:** Kinéis 3D model by Space Radar (spaceradar.ai), MIT License

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

## 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 the operator's published sizes; layout read from photographs of the 1:1 models (CC BY-SA 4.0, looked at only).

built by this project in code (tools/nanosat-builder on the part library of tools/stage-builder/lib.py), from the cited dimensions and the pictures under `references`; no image-to-3D model was used, and no published mesh: NASA's 3D Resources has none of this craft, and no operator of it publishes a model under a free licence (searched 2026-11-07)

## Dimensions

- Body: 0.45 m
- Span: 1.6 m
- Helix: 0.66 m

Source: the operator's orbital-debris assessment in its FCC filing SAT-PDR-20191011-00113 (external volume without appendages 450 x 260 x 240 mm, deployed at most 1200 mm, a pre-launch figure) and Kinéis's press release of 2025-03-18 (28 kg; six solar panels in two wings; '140 x 160', read as centimetres: 1.6 m across the panels; a 16U volume)

## References

- [Kineis satellite model.jpg](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kineis_satellite_model.jpg), Commons user Artvalb (as named on the file page) (CC BY-SA 4.0 (Commons LicenseShortName, read 2026-11-07))
- [Maquette satellite Kineis IAC 2022 01.jpg](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maquette_satellite_Kineis_IAC_2022_01.jpg), Commons user Artvalb (as named on the file page) (CC BY-SA 4.0 (Commons, read 2026-11-07))
- [Maquette satellite Kineis IAC 2022 02.jpg](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maquette_satellite_Kineis_IAC_2022_02.jpg), Commons user Artvalb (as named on the file page) (CC BY-SA 4.0 (Commons, read 2026-11-07))
- [Kinéis sat.jpg](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kin%C3%A9is_sat.jpg), as named on the file page (CC BY-SA 4.0 (Commons, read 2026-11-07))
- [Kinéis orbital-debris assessment, FCC filing SAT-PDR-20191011-00113](https://fcc.report/IBFS/SAT-PDR-20191011-00113/1950167.pdf), Kinéis (as filed) (a public regulatory filing; the numbers are facts, nothing is copied)
- [Kinéis press release of 2025-03-18 (the fifth launch), and the press release of 2021-05-11 'Trois antennes d'envergure pour les nanosatellites Kinéis'](https://cnes.fr/actualites/dernier-lancement-reussi-kineis-cest-un-25-25), Kinéis, CNES (press text; the numbers are facts, nothing is copied)