# MetOp-SG A 3D model

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

Free 3D model of MetOp-SG A, a satellite, built from published dimensions by Space Radar. 12,218 triangles, 105 kB glTF, MIT.

- **Class:** Satellites
- **Mission:** Weather and climate
- **Triangles:** 12,218
- **File:** metop-sg-a.glb, 105 kB, glTF 2.0 binary (meshopt)
- **Look:** Physically based
- **Size:** 11 m across
- **Made:** Built from dimensions
- **Added:** 2026-10-21
- **NORAD:** 65159
- **Download:** https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/main/site/models/metop-sg-a.glb
- **Mirror:** https://git.sara-agent.org/sara-projects/space-radar/raw/branch/main/site/models/metop-sg-a.glb
- **Viewer:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/model/?id=metop-sg-a
- **On the live map:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/#at=sat-65159
- **Licence:** MIT (https://github.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/blob/main/LICENSE)
- **Credit:** MetOp-SG A 3D model by Space Radar (spaceradar.ai), MIT License

Canonical: https://models.spaceradar.ai/metop-sg-a/

## 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 and ESA's published dimensions; compared with pictures by ESA (CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO) and Don-vip (CC BY-SA 4.0).

built by this project in code (release 1.3.0 stage W3-b's part library, lib.py and parts.py, and one script a craft, kept with the stage's notes in ~/space-radar-handoff/release-1.3/W3-b/build), from the cited dimensions and the pictures under `references`; no image-to-3D model was used, and no published mesh: NASA's 3D Resources and NASA Science have none of these craft; ESA publishes no model of them under terms that allow a derivative (its multimedia terms, the ESA Standard Licence, allow use for information and education, not an altered model); EUMETSAT publishes none (read 2026-10-20)

## Dimensions

- Length: 6.5 m
- Width: 2.97 m
- Height: 3.46 m
- Array: 24 m²
- Wing: 11 m

Source: eoPortal, MetOp-SG, https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/metop-sg, OPENED 2026-10-20: Satellite A stowed '6.5 (+0.55) x 2.97 x 3.46' m, '4,400 kg'; the RO's 'zenith, velocity, and anti-velocity antennas'. ESA, MetOp-SG facts and figures and MetOp-SG satellites, https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Meteorological_missions/MetOp_Second_Generation/MetOp-SG_facts_and_figures, OPENED 2026-10-20: in orbit the solar array 'extends sideways more than 11 m', a '24 m sq' panel; B1's wing 'four-panel' (ESA's pictures of the A satellite show four too). OURS: the body 6.5 by 2.6 by 2.15 m with the dark payload module under the gold, every instrument's size and place as read off ESA's pictures, the panels 2.4 by 2.5 m, a yoke of 1.8 m, the wing's turn (55 degrees about its axis), 11.75 m from the wall to the tip

## References

- [MetOp Second Generation A-type satellite ESA511182](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MetOp_Second_Generation_A-type_satellite_ESA511182.jpg), ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO (CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO (European Space Agency; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-20))
- [MetOp-SG-A instruments ESA511184](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MetOp-SG-A_instruments_ESA511184.jpg), ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO (CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO (European Space Agency; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-20))
- [MetOp Second Generation A-type satellite for weather forecasting ESA511189](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MetOp_Second_Generation_A-type_satellite_for_weather_forecasting_ESA511189.jpg), ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO (CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO (European Space Agency; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-20))
- [Metop-SG A1 avec IASI-NG-09](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Metop-SG_A1_avec_IASI-NG-09.jpg), Don-vip, CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0 (Don-vip, own work for Wikimedia France; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-20))