Midori-II (ADEOS-II)
Shape built from published dimensions and pictures; details simplified.
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About this model
Midori-II (ADEOS-II) 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 13,482 triangles in a 153 kB glTF file, and is 24 m across at full scale.
On Space Radar’s live map it is drawn for the object with NORAD catalogue number 27597, where its published orbit puts it now. Open it on the map.
Dimensions and their sources
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Length | 6 m |
| Width | 4 m |
| Height | 4 m |
| Paddle | 24 m |
eoPortal, ADEOS-II, eoportal.org/satellite-missions/adeos-ii, OPENED 2026-10-27: 'Dimension of main S/C body: approximately 6 m x 4 m x 4 m', a single solar array of '50 flexible blankets with a total of 55,680 solar-battery cells' 'extended on a joint mast'; AMSR's '2.0 m offset parabolic antenna'; GLI's 'Elliptic flat mirror ... (600 mm x 260 mm)'; SeaWinds' '1 m diameter rotating dish'; ILAS-II '950 mm x 1670 mm x 600 mm'; POLDER-2 '800 x 500 x 250 mm'. NSIDC, ADEOS-II Platform Description, nsidc.org/sites/default/files/adeos-ii20platform20description.pd…, OPENED 2026-10-27: 'Main body dimensions: approximately 6 x 4 x 4 m', 'Solar array paddle dimensions: approximately 3 x 24 m', 5 350 W. OURS: the split into a bus module (-X) and a mission module (+X), the mast's length (2 m), every instrument's place, the equipment boxes (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 and NSIDC's published dimensions; compared with NASA's picture (public domain).
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 JAXA publishes no model of ADEOS-II that was found (read 2026-10-27)
Where the map uses it. NORAD 27597 (MIDORI II, ADEOS-II) in the live saved data of 2026-10-12: JAXA's Advanced Earth Observing Satellite-II, lost in October 2003 when its array failed and still one of the brightest satellites in the sky: an orange-gold body of two modules, the 2 m AMSR dish at the front, GLI's black box, and ONE solar paddle 3 by 24 m on a joint mast, a silhouette nothing else has. It wore a generic satellite; public #1112.
Licence note. No JAXA picture or model is in the file. Compared with, with credit: NASA's picture of ADEOS-II (public domain) and its annotated copy (CC BY-SA 3.0), 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 2
What the shape was compared with. None of these pictures is in the file.
- Adeos2.jpgNASA, public domainPublic domain (Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-27)
- Adeos2-annotated.pngCommons contributors, CC BY-SA 3.0CC BY-SA 3.0 (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:
Midori-II (ADEOS-II) 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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