# Psyche 3D model

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

Free 3D model of Psyche, a deep-space probe, built from published dimensions by Space Radar. 7,930 triangles, 44 kB glTF, MIT.

- **Class:** Deep-space probes
- **Mission:** Planetary science
- **Triangles:** 7,930
- **File:** psyche.glb, 44 kB, glTF 2.0 binary (meshopt)
- **Look:** Flat colours
- **Size:** 25 m across
- **Made:** Built from dimensions
- **Added:** 2026-10-20
- **Download:** https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/main/site/models/psyche.glb
- **Mirror:** https://git.sara-agent.org/sara-projects/space-radar/raw/branch/main/site/models/psyche.glb
- **Viewer:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/model/?id=psyche
- **On the live map:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/#at=deep-psyche
- **Licence:** MIT (https://github.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/blob/main/LICENSE)
- **Credit:** Psyche 3D model by Space Radar (spaceradar.ai), MIT License

Canonical: https://models.spaceradar.ai/psyche/

## 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 and NASA/JPL pictures (public domain).

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 Science's 3D models, 100 resources listed 2026-10-15, and NASA's 3D Resources, 1 583 paths, have none of this craft); NASA's and JPL's own pictures (public domain) were looked at for the layout and are not in the file

## Dimensions

- Bus: 2.2 m
- Bus depth: 2.4 m
- Height: 4.9 m
- Span: 24.7 m
- Width: 7.3 m
- Array area: 75 m²
- Hga: 2 m
- Booms: 2 m

Source: NASA Science, 'Psyche Spacecraft', https://science.nasa.gov/mission/psyche/spacecraft/, OPENED 2026-10-15: 'With its solar panels deployed at 81 feet (25 meters) by 24 feet (7.3 meters), Psyche just about covers a tennis court. The spacecraft body, or bus, is 16.1 feet (4.9 meters) tall, including the 6.6-foot (2-meter) booms for two instruments, 7.1 feet (2.2 meters) wide, and 7.8 feet (2.4 meters) deep.' eoPortal, https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/psyche, OPENED 2026-10-15: 'At 75 m 2 , the five-panel, cross-shaped solar arrays are the largest ever installed at JPL'; 'After the successful installation and deployment of the three center panels inside a clean room at JPL'; 'the two perpendicular cross panels'; 'the 6.5-foot-wide (2-meter-wide) high-gain antenna'; 'two identical high-sensitivity magnetic field sensors located at the middle and outer end of a 6-foot (2-meter) boom'; 'It is mounted on a 6-foot (2-meter) boom'. JPL's diagram (public domain, references): '24,7 m.' tip to tip. DERIVED: the bus 2.9 m along the dish's axis (4.9 m less the 2 m booms); each panel 3.06 x 2.43 m (75 m2 over ten panels, three across in 7.3 m); the yoke 1.95 m (24.7 m less the bus and six panels). OURS: the places of the DSOC tube, the imagers, the star trackers and the thrusters, and every size not cited.

## References

- [PIA21499 - Artist's Concept of Psyche Spacecraft with Five-Panel Array](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PIA21499_-_Artist%27s_Concept_of_Psyche_Spacecraft_with_Five-Panel_Array.jpg), NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/SSL/Peter Rubin (Public domain (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arizona State Univ./Space Systems Loral/Peter Rubin; NASA photojournal PIA21499; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-15))
- [Psyche-spacecraft-diagram](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Psyche-spacecraft-diagram.png), NASA/JPL-Caltech (Public domain (NASA/Caltech/JPL, from 'Navigation Models for Psyche Electric Propulsion Uncertainty', trs.jpl.nasa.gov; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-15))
- [Psyche Spacecraft (Artist's Concept)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Psyche_Spacecraft_(Artist%27s_Concept).jpg), NASA/JPL-Caltech (Public domain (NASA/JPL-Caltech; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-15))