RADARSAT-2
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
RADARSAT-2 is one of the 203 3D models Space Radar made itself: a satellite, 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 12,580 triangles in a 69 kB glTF file, and is 15 m across at full scale.
On Space Radar’s live map it is drawn for the object with NORAD catalogue number 32382, where its published orbit puts it now. Open it on the map.
Dimensions and their sources
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Bus height | 3.7 m |
| Bus diameter | 1.36 m |
| Antenna long | 15 m |
| Antenna wide | 1.37 m |
| Wing long | 3.73 m |
| Wing wide | 1.8 m |
eoPortal, eoportal.org/satellite-missions/radarsat-2, OPENED 2026-11-05: 'The S/C bus is based on PRIMA, a reconfigurable bus developed for the Italian Space Agency (ASI) with bus dimensions of 3.7 m (height) by 1.36 m (diameter).'; 'The overall SAR antenna size is 15 m by 1.5 m with a mass exceeding 700 kg.'; 'Aperture size: 15 m x 1.37 m'; 'two solar panels with dimensions: 3.73 m x 1.8 m, each'; 'The SAR antenna itself is supported by ESS, which is used to deploy the antenna and to provide rigid support in the deployed position.'; 'Four thrusters of the propulsion system are in the nadir direction (+Z)'. THE PAGE GIVES TWO ANTENNA WIDTHS, 1.5 m overall and 1.37 m for the aperture: the file draws the aperture's 1.37 m wide radiating face on a 1.5 m wide back (both cited). READ OFF MDA'S DRAWING AND RENDER: that the bus stands on the antenna's back; that both wings lie along the antenna's own axis, each on a triangular white yoke; that each wing is three panels; the stays and the white strips on the antenna's back. OURS: the standoff of the bus above the antenna (0.5 m), the yoke's size and height on the bus, the wing split into three equal panels, the number and places of the stays, the star trackers, thrusters, radiator windows and hold-down fittings (the page names the thrusters, not their places).
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 (eoPortal, ESA) and MDA's drawing and render of RADARSAT-2, looked at for the layout.
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's 3D Resources on GitHub, 1 583 paths read 2026-11-05, has only RADARSAT-1 of the radar craft and none of this one; the survey of 2026-11-05 found no agency model of it under usable terms)
Where the map uses it. NORAD 32382 (RADARSAT-2), in the whole active catalogue: Canada's C-band radar satellite (MDA for the CSA, 2007), drawn as the generic radar blade under a bus with two wings; public #981. NOT the three RCM satellites: they are a different, smaller craft with their own file `rcm`
Licence note. The shape is this project's, under this repository's licence, built from published numbers (facts); the pictures are the property of the credit holders named on them, were LOOKED AT for the layout, and are NOT in the file or on any sheet this repository keeps. NO LOGO AND NO LETTERING is on the mesh.
References 2
What the shape was compared with. None of these pictures is in the file.
- Line drawing of the RADARSAT-2 spacecraft (eoPortal, RADARSAT-2 page)MDAall rights reserved by MDA, as shown on eoPortal (ESA); looked at, not reproduced
- Artist's rendition of the RADARSAT-2 satellite in orbit (eoPortal, RADARSAT-2 page)MDAall rights reserved by MDA, as shown on eoPortal (ESA); looked at, not reproduced
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:
RADARSAT-2 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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