# PROBA-V 3D model

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

Free 3D model of PROBA-V, a satellite, built from published dimensions by Space Radar. 9,774 triangles, 56 kB glTF, MIT.

- **Class:** Satellites
- **Mission:** Technology and science
- **Triangles:** 9,774
- **File:** proba-v.glb, 56 kB, glTF 2.0 binary (meshopt)
- **Look:** Physically based
- **Size:** 0.8 m across
- **Made:** Built from dimensions
- **Added:** 2026-10-27
- **NORAD:** 39159
- **Download:** https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/main/site/models/proba-v.glb
- **Mirror:** https://git.sara-agent.org/sara-projects/space-radar/raw/branch/main/site/models/proba-v.glb
- **Viewer:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/model/?id=proba-v
- **On the live map:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/#at=sat-39159
- **Licence:** MIT (https://github.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/blob/main/LICENSE)
- **Credit:** PROBA-V 3D model by Space Radar (spaceradar.ai), MIT License

Canonical: https://models.spaceradar.ai/proba-v/

## 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).

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 artist's view and photographs (eoPortal) were looked at only, for the layout

## Dimensions

- X: 0.765 m
- Y: 0.73 m
- Z: 0.83 m

Source: eoPortal, https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/proba-v, OPENED 2026-10-26: 'Dimensions 765 x 730 x 830 mm'; 'Body mounted solar panels'; 'a H-shape structure, the only practical location of the payload is on the anti-velocity panel'. OURS: which side of the box is which, the three apertures' places and tilts, the rest.

## References

- [proba-v](https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/proba-v), ESA (ESA's pictures as shown by eoPortal (image credit: ESA): LOOKED AT ONLY, never fetched by the tool and on no sheet)