O3b mPOWER
Shape built from published dimensions and pictures; details simplified.
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Pictures 4
Three-quarter view
From the side
From behind
From above
About this model
O3b mPOWER 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 6,300 triangles in a 37 kB glTF file, and is 27 m across at full scale.
It is part of the map’s library; no object on the live map is drawn with it today.
Dimensions and their sources
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Length | 1.2 m |
| Diameter | 3 m |
| Span | 27 m |
| Mass | 1700 kg |
| Panels per wing | 4 |
J. McDowell, 'General Catalog of Artificial Space Objects' (GCAT), planet4589.org/space/gcat , satcat.tsv of 2026-10-26, OPENED 2026-10-27 (licence on the page: 'GCAT is released under the Creative Commons CC-BY licence'); columns Length, Diameter, Span, Shape: O3B MPOWER F1 to F13 'Length 1.2, Diameter 3.0, Span 27.0' m, shape 'Box + 2 pan', mass 1700 kg, bus 702X, maker Boeing. Gunter's Space Page, space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/o3b-mpower1.htm , OPENED 2026-10-27: 'The 1200 kg second generation satellites'(sic: the table says 1700 kg); 'BSS-702X'; '2 deployable solar arrays, batteries'; 'all-electric propulsion system'. Wikipedia, 'O3b mPOWER', OPENED 2026-10-27: 'The electronically steered phased array antennas can provide up to 5000 spot beams per satellite'. TWO PAGES DISAGREE on the mass (1 200 and 1 700 kg): not used for the shape. NOT PUBLISHED, OURS: the box's width, the phased face's size and element count, the panels' width, the yokes, the thrusters. (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 published dimensions and a photograph of a model (CC0 by Blervis; McDowell's GCAT, CC BY).
The full record
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 pictures under `references`; no image-to-3D model was used, and no published mesh (NASA Science's 3D models and NASA's 3D Resources have none of this craft, and the maker and the operator publish none under terms that allow a derivative); the layout and its sources are under `references` and `dimensions`
Where the map uses it. O3B MPOWER F1 to F13 (twelve craft): Boeing's 702X with a phased-array Earth face and two four-panel wings on yokes, 27 m tip to tip. They were drawn as generic satellites; the first-generation O3b craft are another shape; public #1156
Licence note. CC0 (Blervis's photograph of a desk model, read for the wings' four panels and their two yoke arms: looked at, with credit; nothing of it is in the file). The numbers are McDowell's GCAT (CC BY 4.0, cited under `dimensions`); the shape is this project's, under this repository's licence. The body's Earth face was read off an artist's render on Gunter's Space Page, LOOKED AT ONLY. NO LOGO AND NO LETTERING is on the mesh.
References 2
What the shape was compared with. None of these pictures is in the file.
- O3b mPower Satellite ModelBlervis (Wikimedia Commons)CC0 (the photographer, Blervis, a photograph of a desk model of the craft; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-27)
- o3b_mpower__1Gunter's Space Page (the render's maker is not named there)an artist's render on Gunter's Space Page (copyright of its maker): LOOKED AT ONLY for the layout: a white box with two four-panel wings on long yokes; not fetched by the tool, on no sheet, nothing of it in the file
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:
O3b mPOWER 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.
Or embed the viewer in your page:
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