Lunokhod 1
Shape built from published dimensions and pictures; details simplified.
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Pictures 4
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About this model
Lunokhod 1 is one of the 203 3D models Space Radar made itself: a lander or rover, 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 19,716 triangles in a 164 kB glTF file, and is 1.7 m across at full scale.
It is part of the map’s library; no object on the live map is drawn with it today.
Dimensions and their sources
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Height | 1.35 m |
| Length | 1.7 m |
| Width | 1.6 m |
Wikipedia, 'Lunokhod 1', en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_1, OPENED 2026-10-20: 'a tub-like compartment with a large convex lid on eight independently powered wheels'; 'The rover stood 135 cm high'; 'about 170 cm long and 160 cm wide'; 'a cone-shaped antenna, a highly directional helical antenna'; 'a solar cell array mounted on the underside of the lid'. Wikipedia, 'Lunokhod 2', OPENED 2026-10-20: 'three television cameras, one mounted high on the rover for navigation'; 'four panoramic cameras'; 'a solar panel on the inside of a round hinged lid'. OURS: which of the cited numbers is what (the tub's rim 1.7 x 1.6 m, OURS), the wheels 0.51 m across, the wheelbase 1.64 m, the lid open 112 degrees, every instrument's size (read 2026-10-20)
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 photographs of museum models (Stolbovsky, CC BY 4.0; Armael, CC0; Clemens Vasters, CC BY 2.0).
The full record
built by this project in code (release 1.3.0 stage W3-c's scripts, one a craft, on W1-c's part library, kept with the stage's notes), from the cited dimensions and the pictures under `references`; no image-to-3D model was used, and no published mesh (CNSA publishes none under terms that allow a derivative, and NASA's 3D Resources and NASA Science's 3D models have none of these craft; read 2026-10-20)
Where the map uses it. the lunokhod-1 landing site (registry/sites.yaml), Mare Imbrium, where the rover stopped: Lunokhod 1, lid open. It was the generic rover, which is still what is drawn while this file is on its way; public #1127
Licence note. CC BY 4.0 (Stolbovsky's photographs of Lunokhod 2's model in Kaluga), CC0 (Armael's of Lunokhod 1's full-size model) and CC BY 2.0 (Clemens Vasters' of the Evergreen replica): looked at, with credit; nothing of them is in the file. The shape is this project's, under this repository's licence, built from published numbers (facts).
References 4
What the shape was compared with. None of these pictures is in the file.
- Lunokhod 2 in Kaluga 01StolbovskyCC BY 4.0 (Stolbovsky; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-20)
- Lunokhod 2 in Kaluga 02StolbovskyCC BY 4.0 (Stolbovsky; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-20)
- Lunokhod 1 moon rover (MMA 2011) (1)ArmaelCC0 (Armael; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-20)
- USSR Lunokhod 1 (6586684979) (6)Clemens VastersCC BY 2.0 (Clemens Vasters; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-20)
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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:
Lunokhod 1 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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