Psyche
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
Psyche is one of the 203 3D models Space Radar made itself: a deep-space probe, 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 7,930 triangles in a 44 kB glTF file, and is 25 m across at full scale.
On Space Radar’s live map it is drawn where the craft is today. Open it on the map.
Dimensions and their sources
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| 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 |
NASA Science, 'Psyche Spacecraft', 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, 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. (read 2026-10-15)
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).
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 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
Where the map uses it. JPL Horizons -255, Psyche (data/sample.js `deep-psyche`), on its way to the metal-rich asteroid 16 Psyche: NASA's orbiter on Hall thrusters, a black bus with a 2 m dish and two five-panel cross-shaped wings. It was the generic probe; public #1080
Licence note. Public domain (NASA/JPL's pictures, which the layout was read off: looked at, with credit; nothing of them is in the file); the shape is this project's, under this repository's licence, built from published numbers (facts). NO LOGO AND NO LETTERING is on the mesh.
References 3
What the shape was compared with. None of these pictures is in the file.
- PIA21499 - Artist's Concept of Psyche Spacecraft with Five-Panel ArrayNASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/SSL/Peter RubinPublic domain (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arizona State Univ./Space Systems Loral/Peter Rubin; NASA photojournal PIA21499; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-15)
- Psyche-spacecraft-diagramNASA/JPL-CaltechPublic 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)NASA/JPL-CaltechPublic domain (NASA/JPL-Caltech; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-15)
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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:
Psyche 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.
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