PROBA-3 coronagraph
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
PROBA-3 coronagraph 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 5,942 triangles in a 42 kB glTF file, and is 1.4 m across at full scale.
On Space Radar’s live map it is drawn for the object with NORAD catalogue number 62256, where its published orbit puts it now. Open it on the map.
Dimensions and their sources
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| X | 0.985 m |
| Y | 1.44 m |
| Z | 1.238 m |
| Mass | 300 kg |
eoPortal, eoportal.org/satellite-missions/proba-3, OPENED 2026-10-26: 'CSC wet mass is about 300 kg with a size of 985 mm x 1440 mm x 1238 mm.'; 'Like the Occulter, the Coronagraph Spacecraft is designed to be always Sun pointing with the same face.'; 'a rigid support structure is used to position the single solar panel outside the penumbra'; Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROBA-3, OPENED 2026-10-26: 'By flying in tight formation about 150 metres apart ...'. OURS: which side of the box is which, the panel's 1.4 x 1.2 m and its angle, the flange, the pods.
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 published dimensions (no free picture of the craft).
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's 3D Resources, 1 583 paths read 2026-10-26, and NASA Science's resources have none of this craft; the agency pages were searched, and no agency model of it under usable terms was found); no ESA picture or model is in the file: ESA's pictures (CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO) and a visitor's photographs of the model (CC BY-SA 4.0) are share-alike and were looked at only, for the layout
Where the map uses it. NORAD 62256, PROBA-3 CSC, in the live saved data of 2026-10-12: the coronagraph spacecraft of ESA's formation-flying pair, a black box with the instrument's silver aperture flange on its Sun face and one solar panel on a support. It wore the shape of its class; public #1107 (the pair's other craft, the occulter, is `proba-3-osc`)
Licence note. This project's own shape, under this repository's licence, built from published numbers (facts). THE ONLY FREE PICTURES ARE SHARE-ALIKE (a visitor's photographs of the mission's model, CC BY-SA 4.0; ESA's pictures, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO) and were LOOKED AT ONLY (named under references); nothing of them is in the file. 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.
- PROBA-3 Coronagraph - model II.jpgPavel Hrdlicka (Wikimedia Commons)CC BY-SA 4.0 (Pavel Hrdlicka; read 2026-10-26): share-alike, LOOKED AT ONLY, never fetched by the tool and on no sheet
- Proba-3 fact sheet.jpgESACC BY-SA 3.0 IGO (ESA; read 2026-10-26): share-alike, LOOKED AT ONLY, never fetched by the tool and on no sheet
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:
PROBA-3 coronagraph 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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