KOMPSAT-5
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
KOMPSAT-5 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 5,484 triangles in a 42 kB glTF file, and is 9.1 m across at full scale.
On Space Radar’s live map it is drawn for the object with NORAD catalogue number 39227, where its published orbit puts it now. Open it on the map.
Dimensions and their sources
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Stowed height | 3.7 m |
| Deployed length | 9.1 m |
| Mass | 1315 kg |
| Panels per wing | 4 |
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, 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.
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).
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 39227 (ARIRANG-5 (KOMPSAT-5)), in the active catalogue of 2026-10-26: Korea's X-band radar satellite, a copper-gold hexagonal body with a long flat SAR antenna, two wings of four panels (9.1 m) and gold spiked X-band discs; public #1141
Licence note. KARI's photographs and render of KOMPSAT-5 (Commons, KOGL Type 1) and a visitor's CC0 photograph of the structural-thermal model and its information board were looked at for the layout and the numbers, with credit; nothing of any picture is in the file. A visitor's CC BY-SA 3.0 photograph of the full-size model at Jeju was looked at only. The shape is this project's, under this repository's licence. NO LOGO AND NO LETTERING is on the mesh.
References 3
What the shape was compared with. None of these pictures is in the file.
- An artist rendering of the KOMPSAT-5Korea 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 STMImpMK (Wikimedia Commons)CC0 (ImpMK, own work; the Commons API's LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-27)
- KOMPSAT-5 Model in Jeju Aerospace MuseumHunini (Wikimedia Commons)CC BY-SA 3.0 (Hunini, 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:
KOMPSAT-5 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.
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