Satellogic NewSat
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
Satellogic NewSat 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 8,412 triangles in a 80 kB glTF file, and is 0.8 m across at full scale.
On Space Radar’s live map it is drawn for 18 catalogued objects, each where its published orbit puts it now. Open it on the map.
Dimensions and their sources
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Length | 0.82 m |
| Width | 0.57 m |
| Depth | 0.51 m |
| Mass | 38.5 kg |
eoPortal, eoportal.org/satellite-missions/newsat, OPENED 2026-10-27: 'The NewSat microsatellites are 0.51 x 0.57 x 0.82 m in size, with a mass of approximately 38.5 kg'; 'All the satellites in the Aleph-1 constellation are identical spacecraft, with a size of 0.51 x 0.57 x 0.82 m and a mass of 38.5 kg'. OURS: the split of the 0.82 m between the cell-covered bus (0.38 m) and the barrel (0.44 m), the barrel's 0.45 m diameter, the cell grid, the sizes and places of the horn, patch array and patches. The pictures do not say which Mark they show: none is claimed (read 2026-10-27)
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 eoPortal's published dimensions; compared with pictures by Satellogic USA INC, Gisesate and BugWarp (CC BY-SA 4.0).
The full record
built by this project in code (release 1.3.0's part library, lib.py and parts.py, kept with the stage's notes in ~/space-radar-handoff/release-1.4/r14-m5/build, one script a craft), from the cited dimensions and the pictures under `references`; no image-to-3D model was used, and no published mesh: NASA's 3D Resources (1 583 paths, read 2026-10-27) has none of this craft, and no operator of it was found to publish a model under a free licence (searched 2026-10-27)
Where the map uses it. the Satellogic NewSat (NuSat) Earth imagers, 38.5 kg, 0.51 x 0.57 x 0.82 m, 18 in the live saved data of 2026-10-12: NORAD 52184, 55047, 55048, 56201, 56202, 56203, 56944, 56966, 59122, 60493, 60498, 60500, 62640, 66692, 66740, 66743, 68432, 68442 (NUSAT-26 to NUSAT-54). It wore the class shape of a satellite; public #1149. eoPortal says all Aleph-1 satellites keep one form factor, so all 18 are routed; the blocks differ inside, which the file does not show
Licence note. No operator picture or model is in the file: the pictures named `LOOKED AT ONLY` were looked at for the layout and are on no sheet. The shape is this project's, under this repository's licence, built from published numbers (facts). NO LOGO, FLAG OR LETTERING is on the mesh.
References 4
What the shape was compared with. None of these pictures is in the file.
- File:Satellogic Render NewSat.pngSatellogic USA INC, CC BY-SA 4.0CC BY-SA 4.0 (Satellogic USA INC, own work; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-27)
- File:Satelite NewSat.pngGisesate, CC BY-SA 4.0CC BY-SA 4.0 (Gisesate, own work; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-27)
- File:NuSat mockup at Satellogic HQ.jpg (the file name has a capital N with a tilde)BugWarp, CC BY-SA 4.0CC BY-SA 4.0 (BugWarp, own work; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-27)
- NewSat figures 1, 3 and 10 (eoPortal)Satellogiclooked at only; not free
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:
Satellogic NewSat 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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