# NuSTAR 3D model

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

Free 3D model of NuSTAR, a space telescope, built from published dimensions by Space Radar. 5,668 triangles, 43 kB glTF, MIT.

- **Class:** Space telescopes
- **Mission:** Astronomy
- **Triangles:** 5,668
- **File:** nustar.glb, 43 kB, glTF 2.0 binary (meshopt)
- **Look:** Flat colours
- **Size:** 11 m across
- **Made:** Built from dimensions
- **Added:** 2026-10-13
- **NORAD:** 38358
- **Download:** https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/main/site/models/nustar.glb
- **Mirror:** https://git.sara-agent.org/sara-projects/space-radar/raw/branch/main/site/models/nustar.glb
- **Viewer:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/model/?id=nustar
- **On the live map:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/#at=sat-38358
- **Licence:** MIT (https://github.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/blob/main/LICENSE)
- **Credit:** NuSTAR 3D model by Space Radar (spaceradar.ai), MIT License

Canonical: https://models.spaceradar.ai/nustar/

## 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 published dimensions and NASA/JPL-Caltech artist's concepts of NuSTAR.

built by this project in code (the private tool model-from-images, assemble.py, from a yaml of primitives), from the cited dimensions and the two NASA/JPL-Caltech renders under `references`; no image-to-3D model was used, and no published mesh

## Dimensions

- Length: 10.9 m
- Width: 1.2 m
- Mast: 10 m
- Focal length: 10.15 m
- Optic outer radius: 0.191 m

Source: Overall 1.2 x 10.9 m: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NuSTAR infobox, read 2026-10-13. Mast 10 m, focal length 10.15 m, mirror shells 51 to 191 mm in radius: https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/nustar, read 2026-10-13 ('a 10 m mast is deployed to achieve a focal length of 10.15 m'; 'Shell radii 51 - 191 mm'). NOT CITED, read off the render by eye: the other sides of the optics bench (1.2 x 0.72 x 0.5 m) and of the bus (an octagon 0.98 m across, 0.9 m long), the mast's 0.36 m side, the wing's 2.6 x 1.05 m in five panels

## References

- [NuSTAR spacecraft model (artist's concept of NuSTAR on orbit)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NuSTAR_spacecraft_model.png), NASA/JPL-Caltech (Public domain (NASA/JPL-Caltech artist's concept))
- [NuStar 2](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NuStar_2.jpg), NASA/JPL-Caltech (Public domain (NASA/JPL-Caltech artist's concept, PIA15265))