# Progress MS 3D model

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

Free 3D model of Progress MS, a crewed craft or station, built from published dimensions by Space Radar. 10,720 triangles, 64 kB glTF, MIT.

- **Class:** Stations and crewed craft
- **Mission:** Human spaceflight
- **Triangles:** 10,720
- **File:** progress-ms.glb, 64 kB, glTF 2.0 binary (meshopt)
- **Look:** Flat colours
- **Size:** 11 m across
- **Made:** Built from dimensions
- **Added:** 2026-10-13
- **Download:** https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/main/site/models/progress-ms.glb
- **Mirror:** https://git.sara-agent.org/sara-projects/space-radar/raw/branch/main/site/models/progress-ms.glb
- **Viewer:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/model/?id=progress-ms
- **Licence:** MIT (https://github.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/blob/main/LICENSE)
- **Credit:** Progress MS 3D model by Space Radar (spaceradar.ai), MIT License

Canonical: https://models.spaceradar.ai/progress-ms/

## 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, NASA photographs and a NASA drawing of the Progress.

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

## Dimensions

- Length: 7.4 m
- Skirt diameter: 2.72 m
- Span: 10.7 m
- Cargo module diameter: 2.2 m

Source: NASA, 'Reference Guide to the International Space Station' (NP-2015-05-022-JSC), page 67, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/np-2015-05-022-jsc-iss-guide-2015-update-111015-508c.pdf, opened 2026-10-13: 'Length 7.4 m (24.3 ft)', 'Maximum diameter 2.7 m (8.9 ft)', 'Span with solar arrays 10.7 m (35.1 ft)'; its drawing names the three sections 'Cargo Module', 'Refueling Module', 'Pressurized Instrumentation Section' and gives no size for any. Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_MS, opened 2026-10-13: length 7.4 m, span 10.7 m, diameter 2.7 m; 'Tanker section: Replacing the Soyuz reentry module, this unpressurized compartment houses tanks'; the instrumentation and propulsion section is 'slightly elongated'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_(spacecraft), opened 2026-10-13, for the earlier Progress M: 'Length: 7.23 m', 'Diameter of cargo modules: 2.2 m', 'Maximum diameter: 2.72 m', 'Solar array span: 10.6 m'. THE TWO LENGTHS DISAGREE (7.4 m and 7.23 m); NASA's 7.4 m is built, with the probe. NOT CITED: how the 7.4 m is shared between the three sections, the refuelling module's shape and diameter (no source states them; read off NASA's drawing and photographs as a drum a little narrower than the cargo module with a waist at the joint), the wings' 1.4 m width and four panels a side, every antenna

## References

- [The Progress 94 cargo spacecraft from Roscosmos (iss074e0395778)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Progress_94_cargo_spacecraft_from_Roscosmos_(iss074e0395778).jpg), NASA Johnson Space Center (Public domain (NASA Johnson Space Center))
- [Progress MS-17 approaches the ISS (1)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Progress_MS-17_approaches_the_ISS_(1).jpg), NASA (Public domain (NASA))
- [Progress drawing](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Progress_drawing.svg), NASA (Public domain (NASA))