# MTG-I 3D model

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

Free 3D model of MTG-I, a satellite, built from published dimensions by Space Radar. 7,772 triangles, 74 kB glTF, MIT.

- **Class:** Satellites
- **Mission:** Weather and climate
- **Triangles:** 7,772
- **File:** mtg-i.glb, 74 kB, glTF 2.0 binary (meshopt)
- **Look:** Physically based
- **Size:** 5.2 m across
- **Made:** Built from dimensions
- **Added:** 2026-10-27
- **NORAD:** 54743
- **Download:** https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/main/site/models/mtg-i.glb
- **Mirror:** https://git.sara-agent.org/sara-projects/space-radar/raw/branch/main/site/models/mtg-i.glb
- **Viewer:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/model/?id=mtg-i
- **On the live map:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/#at=sat-54743
- **Licence:** MIT (https://github.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/blob/main/LICENSE)
- **Credit:** MTG-I 3D model by Space Radar (spaceradar.ai), MIT License

Canonical: https://models.spaceradar.ai/mtg-i/

## 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 ESA's and eoPortal's published dimensions; compared with pictures by ESA (CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO) and Neq00 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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 EUMETSAT publishes no model of its satellites that was found, and ESA's multimedia terms (the ESA Standard Licence) allow use for information and education, not an altered model (read 2026-10-27)

## Dimensions

- Width: 2.3 m
- Length: 5.2 m
- Height: 2.8 m
- Array: 10.7 m²

Source: ESA, MTG facts and figures, https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Meteorological_missions/meteosat_third_generation/Facts_and_figures, OPENED 2026-10-27: the imager '2.3 x 2.8 x 5.2 m (stowed for launch)', '3800 kg', '2 kW', three-axis stabilised; eoPortal, Meteosat Third Generation, https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/meteosat-third-generation, OPENED 2026-10-27: 'a solar array of 10.7 m2', 'A two-winged satellite configuration', the FCI '1.57 m x 1.72 m x 2.2 m' with a 300 mm pupil, the LI's four channels, 'two hemispherical TT&C antennas', a Ka-band antenna folded at launch on a two-axis pointing mechanism, 'one 400 N apogee engine', '16 10 N thrusters'. OURS: the body 2.6 by 2.3 by 3.5 m with the FCI's barrel to 5.2 m, the two wings of 1.9 by 2.8 m (the cited 10.7 m2 in all), the yokes (0.75 m), every instrument's size and place, the dish's pointing

## References

- [Meteosat Third Generation ESA418057 (MTG-I cropped).jpg](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meteosat_Third_Generation_ESA418057_(MTG-I_cropped).jpg), ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO (CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO (Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-27))
- [MTG-I carries two types of imager ESA24625096.png](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MTG-I_carries_two_types_of_imager_ESA24625096.png), ESA/Mlabspace, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO (CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO (Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-27))
- [MTG-I and MTG-S ESA24426397.jpeg](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MTG-I_and_MTG-S_ESA24426397.jpeg), ESA/Mlabspace, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO (CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO (Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-27))
- [EUMETSAT – Model of MTG-I.jpg](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EUMETSAT_%E2%80%93_Model_of_MTG-I.jpg), Neq00, CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0 (Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-27))