MTG-I
Shape built from published dimensions and pictures; details simplified.
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Pictures 4
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About this model
MTG-I 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 7,772 triangles in a 74 kB glTF file, and is 5.2 m across at full scale.
On Space Radar’s live map it is drawn for the object with NORAD catalogue number 54743, where its published orbit puts it now. Open it on the map.
Dimensions and their sources
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Width | 2.3 m |
| Length | 5.2 m |
| Height | 2.8 m |
| Array | 10.7 m² |
ESA, MTG facts and figures, esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Meteorological_missions…, 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, 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 (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 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).
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 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)
Where the map uses it. NORAD 54743 (METEOSAT-12, MTG-I1) and 100530 (MTG-I2; by name, its number is one the parser reads as a placeholder) in the live saved data of 2026-10-12: the imager satellites of Meteosat Third Generation, three-axis stabilised, the Flexible Combined Imager's big barrel and the Lightning Imager's four tubes on the Earth face, two wings on Y-shaped yokes. They wore the shape of the geostationary bus; public #1115. Not MTG-S (its own file, `mtg-s`).
Licence note. No ESA or EUMETSAT picture or model is in the file. Compared with, with credit: ESA's renders (CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO) and two museum models at EUMETSAT by Neq00 (CC BY-SA 4.0), 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 4
What the shape was compared with. None of these pictures is in the file.
- Meteosat Third Generation ESA418057 (MTG-I cropped).jpgESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGOCC BY-SA 3.0 IGO (Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-27)
- MTG-I carries two types of imager ESA24625096.pngESA/Mlabspace, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGOCC BY-SA 3.0 IGO (Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-27)
- MTG-I and MTG-S ESA24426397.jpegESA/Mlabspace, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGOCC BY-SA 3.0 IGO (Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-27)
- EUMETSAT – Model of MTG-I.jpgNeq00, CC BY-SA 4.0CC BY-SA 4.0 (Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-27)
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The model is under the MIT licence: use it, change it and share it, in any project, also a paid one. Keep the credit:
MTG-I 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.