# Planet Pelican 3D model

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

Free 3D model of Planet Pelican, a satellite, built from published dimensions by Space Radar. 7,126 triangles, 61 kB glTF, MIT.

- **Class:** Satellites
- **Mission:** Earth observation
- **Triangles:** 7,126
- **File:** planet-pelican.glb, 61 kB, glTF 2.0 binary (meshopt)
- **Look:** Physically based
- **Size:** 0.6 m across
- **Made:** Built from dimensions
- **Added:** 2026-10-27
- **NORAD:** 58296, 62631, 65315, 65316, 66667, 66703, 69018, 69019, 69871
- **Download:** https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/main/site/models/planet-pelican.glb
- **Mirror:** https://git.sara-agent.org/sara-projects/space-radar/raw/branch/main/site/models/planet-pelican.glb
- **Viewer:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/model/?id=planet-pelican
- **On the live map:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/#at=sat-58296
- **Licence:** MIT (https://github.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/blob/main/LICENSE)
- **Credit:** Planet Pelican 3D model by Space Radar (spaceradar.ai), MIT License

Canonical: https://models.spaceradar.ai/planet-pelican/

## 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 eoPortal's published dimensions; compared with the operator's pictures, looked at only.

built by this project in code (release 1.3.0's part library, lib.py and parts.py, kept with the stage's notes in ~/space-radar-handoff/release-1.4/r14-m5/build, one script a craft), 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, read 2026-10-27) has none of this craft, and no operator of it was found to publish a model under a free licence (searched 2026-10-27)

## Dimensions

- Width: 0.56 m
- Depth: 0.56 m
- Height: 0.4 m
- Mass: 120 kg
- Power: 600 W

Source: eoPortal, https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/planet-pelican, OPENED 2026-10-27: Table 2 'Dimensions (m) 0.56 x 0.56 x 0.40', 'Bus mass excluding payload (kg) 120', 'Power Generation (W) 600'. TWO FIGURES DISAGREE: Table 1 says 'Size (bus) 3 x 1.2 x 0.8 m' and '~ 200 kg per satellite'. We built Table 2's bus and read Table 1's 3 m as the deployed span (four panels of 0.56 x 0.61 m make 3.04 m). OURS: the panels' size, the hinges, the baffle's depth, the wall fittings, the cell grid (Planet's picture shows the panels plain grey and does not show the cell side)

## References

- [Artist's depiction of Pelican-1 in orbit (eoPortal figure 1)](https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/planet-pelican), Planet Labs (looked at only; not free)
- [The Planet SmallSat Bus (eoPortal figure 2)](https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/planet-pelican), Planet Labs (looked at only; not free)