# Odysseus (Nova-C) 3D model

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

Free 3D model of Odysseus (Nova-C), a lander or rover, built from published dimensions by Space Radar. 6,126 triangles, 67 kB glTF, MIT.

- **Class:** Landers and rovers
- **Mission:** Landers and rovers
- **Triangles:** 6,126
- **File:** odysseus.glb, 67 kB, glTF 2.0 binary (meshopt)
- **Look:** Flat colours
- **Size:** 3.9 m across
- **Made:** Built from dimensions
- **Added:** 2026-10-20
- **Download:** https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/main/site/models/odysseus.glb
- **Mirror:** https://git.sara-agent.org/sara-projects/space-radar/raw/branch/main/site/models/odysseus.glb
- **Viewer:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/model/?id=odysseus
- **Licence:** MIT (https://github.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/blob/main/LICENSE)
- **Credit:** Odysseus (Nova-C) 3D model by Space Radar (spaceradar.ai), MIT License

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

## 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 NASA photograph (public domain).

built by this project in code (release 1.3.0 stage W1-c's part library, lib.py, and one script a craft, kept with the stage's notes), from the cited dimensions and the pictures under `references`; no image-to-3D model was used, and no published mesh (NASA's 3D Resources, 1 583 paths, and NASA Science's 3D models have none of this craft; read 2026-10-20)

## Dimensions

- Height: 3.938 m

Source: Wikipedia, 'Nova-C', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova-C, OPENED 2026-10-20: 'The lander structure is a hexagonal cylinder with six landing legs and is 3.938 m (12.92 ft) tall'; 'three solar panels, a top deck panel and two body panels'; 'the lander broke a leg off of the hexagonal body'; 'the lander is resting on a helium tank and/or a computer shelf that was strapped outside of the main fuselage'. Wikipedia, 'IM-1', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IM-1, OPENED 2026-10-20: 'It was later determined to have landed at a 30 degree angle'; 'broke one of its six legs and tipped to its side'. DERIVED: a lander that rests on a tank strapped to its side is tipped about 60 degrees from upright (its long axis 30 degrees above the ground): at 30 degrees from upright the tank would be more than a metre up. OURS: the body 1.57 m across the flats (read off the photograph against the height), the legs' 2.15 m reach, every part's size

## References

- [Intuitive Machines' Nova-C lunar lander (IM 00309) (cropped)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Intuitive_Machines%E2%80%99_Nova-C_lunar_lander_(IM_00309)_(cropped).jpg), NASA/Intuitive Machines (Public domain (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center / Intuitive Machines; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-20))