Progress MS
Shape built from published dimensions and pictures; details simplified.
Turn it in 3D
Open the 3D viewer (www.spaceradar.ai).
The viewer loads when you ask: about 700 kB the first time (three.js and the model), much less after.
Pictures 4
Three-quarter view
From the side
From behind
From above
About this model
Progress MS is one of the 203 3D models Space Radar made itself: a crewed craft or station, 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 10,720 triangles in a 64 kB glTF file, and is 11 m across at full scale.
It is part of the map’s library; no object on the live map is drawn with it today.
Dimensions and their sources
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Length | 7.4 m |
| Skirt diameter | 2.72 m |
| Span | 10.7 m |
| Cargo module diameter | 2.2 m |
NASA, 'Reference Guide to the International Space Station' (NP-2015-05-022-JSC), page 67, nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/np-2015-05-022-jsc-iss-guide…, 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, 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'. 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 (read 2026-10-13)
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.
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
Where the map uses it. any record on the stations layer whose name has the word PROGRESS (today PROGRESS-MS 34 and PROGRESS-MS 35): Russia's cargo craft. It was, and while this file is on its way still is, the procedural Progress (scene/models.js `progress`: a stack of drums from the same metres); public #940
Licence note. Public domain (the two NASA photographs and the NASA drawing it was drawn from); the shape is this project's, under this repository's licence
References 3
What the shape was compared with. None of these pictures is in the file.
- The Progress 94 cargo spacecraft from Roscosmos (iss074e0395778)NASA Johnson Space CenterPublic domain (NASA Johnson Space Center)
- Progress MS-17 approaches the ISS (1)NASAPublic domain (NASA)
- Progress drawingNASAPublic domain (NASA)
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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:
Progress MS 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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