# KOMPSAT-5 3D model

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

Free 3D model of KOMPSAT-5, a satellite, built from published dimensions by Space Radar. 5,484 triangles, 42 kB glTF, MIT.

- **Class:** Satellites
- **Mission:** Earth observation
- **Triangles:** 5,484
- **File:** kompsat-5.glb, 42 kB, glTF 2.0 binary (meshopt)
- **Look:** Flat colours
- **Size:** 9.1 m across
- **Made:** Built from dimensions
- **Added:** 2026-10-27
- **NORAD:** 39227
- **Download:** https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/main/site/models/kompsat-5.glb
- **Mirror:** https://git.sara-agent.org/sara-projects/space-radar/raw/branch/main/site/models/kompsat-5.glb
- **Viewer:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/model/?id=kompsat-5
- **On the live map:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/#at=sat-39227
- **Licence:** MIT (https://github.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/blob/main/LICENSE)
- **Credit:** KOMPSAT-5 3D model by Space Radar (spaceradar.ai), MIT License

Canonical: https://models.spaceradar.ai/kompsat-5/

## 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, KARI's pictures of KOMPSAT-5 (KARI, KOGL Type 1) and a photograph of its structural-thermal model by ImpMK (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

- Stowed height: 3.7 m
- Deployed length: 9.1 m
- Mass: 1315 kg
- Panels per wing: 4

Source: KARI's board beside the structural-thermal model at the Naro Space Center (photograph by ImpMK, CC0), read 2026-10-27: 'Weight : 1315 Kg'; 'Dimension : 3.7 m(H) x 9.1 m(L) (Deployed)'; eoPortal, https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/kompsat-5, OPENED 2026-10-27: 'The solar array consists of two wings, each comprising four solar panels supported by a boom and attached to SADA'; 'The spacecraft has a launch mass of ~1400 kg'; 'equipped with an active phased array antenna'; 'The satellite has an incidence angle of 45°'. OURS: the hexagon's 1.55 m, the split of the bus, the SAR slab's 4.6 x 0.9 m (read off KARI's render) and its 35 degree tilt, the panels' 1.0 x 1.7 m (so that two wings and the bus make the cited 9.1 m), the discs' size.

## References

- [An artist rendering of the KOMPSAT-5](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:G_SA_KOMPS-5_01.jpg), Korea 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)
- [KOMPSAT-5 STM](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KOMPSAT-5_STM.jpg), ImpMK (Wikimedia Commons) (CC0 (ImpMK, own work; the Commons API's LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-27))
- [KOMPSAT-5 Model in Jeju Aerospace Museum](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KOMPSAT-5_Model_in_Jeju_Aerospace_Museum_Reception_hall_20140606-01.JPG), Hunini (Wikimedia Commons) (CC BY-SA 3.0 (Hunini, own work; read 2026-10-27): share-alike, LOOKED AT ONLY)