Meteor-M 2
Shape built from published dimensions and pictures; details simplified.
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Pictures 4
Three-quarter view
From the side
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From above
About this model
Meteor-M 2 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 5,214 triangles in a 54 kB glTF file, and is 14 m across at full scale.
On Space Radar’s live map it is drawn for the object with NORAD catalogue number 40069, where its published orbit puts it now. Open it on the map.
Dimensions and their sources
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Length | 5 m |
| Diameter | 1.4 m |
| Span | 14 m |
eoPortal, Meteor-M No.2, eoportal.org/satellite-missions/meteor-m-2, OPENED 2026-10-27: 'approximately 5 m in length', '1.4 m in body diameter', '14 m with the two solar arrays deployed', 'a pressurised cylindrical core', 'up to 2 kW'; MTVZA-GY 'mounted on the side of the bus with a 0.65 m rotating antenna'; Severyanin-M's antenna 'comprises seven segments - six of which deploy in orbit'; three KMSS cameras side by side ('210 x 200 x 200 mm'). OURS: the cylinder 3.6 m long (the cited 5 m is the whole with the deck), the wings 6.2 by 1.7 m each (to the cited span), the bar 7.4 by 0.42 m, every instrument's size and place (read 2026-10-27)
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 eoPortal's published dimensions; compared with pictures in the public domain and under CC0.
The full record
built by this project in code (release 1.4.0 stage r14-m4: one script a craft on release 1.3.0 W3-b's part library, lib.py and parts.py, kept with the stage's notes in ~/space-radar-handoff/release-1.4/r14-m4/build), from the cited dimensions and the pictures under `references`; no image-to-3D model was used, and no published mesh: a search for one on 2026-10-27 found none, NASA's 3D Resources has none of these craft, and Roscosmos and VNIIEM publish no model of the craft that was found (read 2026-10-27)
Where the map uses it. NORAD 40069 (METEOR-M 2), 44387 (METEOR-M2 2), 57166 (METEOR-M2 3) and 59051 (METEOR-M2 4) in the live saved data of 2026-10-12: Russia's polar weather satellites of VNIIEM, one bus: a long pressurised cylinder with the instruments on the nadir deck, two big wings and the radar's long bar. They wore generic satellites; public #1119. Not the older Meteor-3M or Meteor-M No.1. The four carry the same bus; their instrument fits differ in details (MTVZA-GY and KMSS generations) that are not told apart at the app's close-up.
Licence note. No Roscosmos or VNIIEM picture or model is in the file. Compared with, with credit: the layout drawing and two CAD views of Meteor-M No.1 (public domain) and a render of Meteor-M No.2 (CC0), all on Wikimedia Commons; 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.
- Метеор-М №1 Компоновка.jpgpublic domainPublic domain (Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-27)
- Метеор-М №1сложенный.JPGpublic domainPublic domain (Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-27)
- Meteor-M 2.jpegCC0CC0 (Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-27)
- Метеор-М1в полете.JPGpublic domainPublic domain (Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-27)
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:
Meteor-M 2 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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Shape built from published dimensions and pictures; details simplified.