KOMPSAT-3
Shape built from published dimensions and pictures; details simplified.
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Three-quarter view
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About this model
KOMPSAT-3 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 11,380 triangles in a 63 kB glTF file, and is 3.5 m across at full scale.
On Space Radar’s live map it is drawn for the object with NORAD catalogue number 38338, where its published orbit puts it now. Open it on the map.
Dimensions and their sources
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Height | 3.5 m |
| Diameter | 2 m |
| Aperture | 0.8 m |
| Mass | 1100 kg |
eoPortal, eoportal.org/satellite-missions/kompsat-3a, OPENED 2026-10-27: 'The bus contains a Propulsion Module, an Equipment Module and the Nadir Module, with dimensions 2.0 m (diameter) x 3.5 m (height) and launches mass of 1100 kg'; 'The spacecraft bus used by KOMPSAT-3A is identical to its sister satellite, KOMPSAT-3, and was designed specifically for these missions, featuring a hexagonal platform and a cylindrical nadir module hosting the optical payload systems'; 'Provision of 1.4 kW with three deployable solar panels'; (KOMPSAT-3) 'Korsch-type telescope design on a CFRP optical bench', '80 cm diameter of primary mirror aperture'. OURS: the hexagon's width (1.73 m across flats = the cited 2.0 m across corners), the split of the 3.5 m into modules, the panels' 1.9 x 1.0 m and their 40 degree fold, every patch.
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 KARI's photographs and render of KOMPSAT-3 (KARI, KOGL Type 1).
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 38338 (ARIRANG-3 (KOMPSAT-3)) and 40536 (KOMPSAT-3A), in the active catalogue of 2026-10-26: KARI's 0.7 m and 0.55 m optical satellites on one bus, a gold hexagonal body under an 80 cm telescope with three white-backed solar panels folded out; public #1140
Licence note. KARI's photographs of KOMPSAT-3 in integration and KARI's render (Commons, KOGL Type 1: attribution, commercial use and derivatives allowed) were looked at for the layout, with credit; nothing of any picture is in the file. 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 2
What the shape was compared with. None of these pictures is in the file.
- KOMPSAT-3 flight model integration (KARI, 2012): 290, 292, 293, 295Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI)KOGL Type 1 (Korea Open Government Licence, type 1: attribution; commercial use and derivatives allowed), as the Commons file's LicenseShortName reads, 2026-10-27
- An artist rendering of the KOMPSAT-3Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI)KOGL Type 1 (Korea Open Government Licence, type 1: attribution; commercial use and derivatives allowed), as the Commons file's LicenseShortName reads, 2026-10-27
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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:
KOMPSAT-3 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=kompsat-3" title="KOMPSAT-3, 3D model by Space Radar" width="600" height="450" loading="lazy" style="border:0;max-width:100%"></iframe>Related models
