Kinéis
Shape built from published dimensions and pictures; details simplified.
Turn it in 3D
Open the 3D viewer (www.spaceradar.ai).
The viewer loads when you ask: about 700 kB the first time (three.js and the model), much less after.
Pictures 4
Three-quarter view
From the side
From behind
From above
About this model
Kinéis 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 9,312 triangles in a 85 kB glTF file, and is 1.6 m across at full scale.
On Space Radar’s live map it is drawn for the object with NORAD catalogue number 60079, where its published orbit puts it now. Open it on the map.
Dimensions and their sources
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Body | 0.45 m |
| Span | 1.6 m |
| Helix | 0.66 m |
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)
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).
The full record
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)
Where the map uses it. the 25 Kinéis nanosatellites of the five launches of 2024 and 2025 (NORAD 60079 to 60084, 61220 to 61224, 62081 to 62085, 62929 to 62934, 63300 to 63304), all of one Hemeria design; each is the craft's own shape, not a family stand-in. forge #128, #174
Licence note. No operator picture or model is in the file. The four photographs named under `references` were LOOKED AT ONLY for the layout (they are CC BY-SA 4.0 on Wikimedia Commons, and are on no sheet that ships); the shape is this project's, under this repository's licence, built from published numbers (facts). NO LOGO AND NO LETTERING is on the mesh.
References 6
What the shape was compared with. None of these pictures is in the file.
- Kineis satellite model.jpgCommons 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.jpgCommons user Artvalb (as named on the file page)CC BY-SA 4.0 (Commons, read 2026-11-07)
- Maquette satellite Kineis IAC 2022 02.jpgCommons user Artvalb (as named on the file page)CC BY-SA 4.0 (Commons, read 2026-11-07)
- Kinéis sat.jpgas named on the file pageCC BY-SA 4.0 (Commons, read 2026-11-07)
- Kinéis orbital-debris assessment, FCC filing SAT-PDR-20191011-00113Kinéis (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'Kinéis, CNESpress text; the numbers are facts, nothing is copied
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:
Kinéis 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=kineis" title="Kinéis, 3D model by Space Radar" width="600" height="450" loading="lazy" style="border:0;max-width:100%"></iframe>Related models
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