# SAOCOM 3D model

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

Free 3D model of SAOCOM, a satellite, built from published dimensions by Space Radar. 9,186 triangles, 58 kB glTF, MIT.

- **Class:** Satellites
- **Mission:** Earth observation
- **Triangles:** 9,186
- **File:** saocom.glb, 58 kB, glTF 2.0 binary (meshopt)
- **Look:** Flat colours
- **Size:** 10 m across
- **Made:** Built from dimensions
- **Added:** 2026-10-13
- **NORAD:** 43641
- **Download:** https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/main/site/models/saocom.glb
- **Mirror:** https://git.sara-agent.org/sara-projects/space-radar/raw/branch/main/site/models/saocom.glb
- **Viewer:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/model/?id=saocom
- **On the live map:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/#at=sat-43641
- **Licence:** MIT (https://github.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/blob/main/LICENSE)
- **Credit:** SAOCOM 3D model by Space Radar (spaceradar.ai), MIT License

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

## 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 CONAE's render of SAOCOM (CONAE, CC BY 4.0).

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 2026-10-13, has none of this craft; the survey of 2026-10-13 found no agency model of it under usable terms)

## Dimensions

- Antenna 1: 10 m
- Antenna 2: 3.5 m
- Antenna panels: 7
- Solar wing: 15 m²
- Stowed height: 4.468 m
- Stowed diameter: 2.965 m

Source: eoPortal, https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/saocom, OPENED 2026-10-13: 'Dimensions: - h = 4.468 m, Ø=2.965 m stowed envelope - 10 m x 3.5 m (35m2) SAR ActivePhase Array antenna - 15 m2 foldable solar array wing'; 'the communication of the platform with each of the seven panels of the radar antenna was verified'; 'the radar antenna of 35 m2 was fully deployed'; 'making the release of the radar antenna, whose wings were attached to the main body of the satellite to give rigidity to the whole'; 'Each SAOCOM-1 spacecraft (SAOCOM-1A and SAOCOM-1B) has an estimated wet mass of ~1600 kg'; 'The spacecraft platform is of SAC-C heritage'. DERIVED: seven panels of 1.43 x 3.5 m make the 10 m; a solar wing of three panels 4.4 x 3.4 m is the 15 m2. READ OFF CONAE'S RENDER: the bus as an eight-sided body 4.4 m long (the stowed envelope's height) and 1.3 m across, lying on the antenna's back ACROSS its length, with the launch ring at one end; the solar wing of three panels standing beside the bus, leaning; the antenna's back black with gold lines, its hinges; the bus's gold foil and pale radiators. OURS: the lean (40 degrees), the antenna's thickness (0.12 m), the pale Earth-side face (the render shows the back only).

## References

- [SAOCOM 3D](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SAOCOM_3D.png), CONAE (CC BY 4.0 (CONAE, Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales, Argentina; argentina.gob.ar))