# SCISAT-1 3D model

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

Free 3D model of SCISAT-1, a satellite, built from published dimensions by Space Radar. 12,840 triangles, 68 kB glTF, MIT.

- **Class:** Satellites
- **Mission:** Technology and science
- **Triangles:** 12,840
- **File:** scisat-1.glb, 68 kB, glTF 2.0 binary (meshopt)
- **Look:** Physically based
- **Size:** 1.1 m across
- **Made:** Built from dimensions
- **Added:** 2026-10-27
- **NORAD:** 27858
- **Download:** https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/main/site/models/scisat-1.glb
- **Mirror:** https://git.sara-agent.org/sara-projects/space-radar/raw/branch/main/site/models/scisat-1.glb
- **Viewer:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/model/?id=scisat
- **On the live map:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/#at=sat-27858
- **Licence:** MIT (https://github.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/blob/main/LICENSE)
- **Credit:** SCISAT-1 3D model by Space Radar (spaceradar.ai), MIT License

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

## 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 (no free picture of the craft).

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, 1 583 paths read 2026-10-26, and NASA Science's resources have none of this craft; the agency pages were searched, and no agency model of it under usable terms was found); no CSA or Bristol Aerospace picture is in the file: eoPortal's labelled drawing (Figure 10) and the artist's views (Figures 12 to 14) were looked at only

## Dimensions

- Diameter: 1.12 m
- Height: 1.04 m
- Mass: 150 kg

Source: eoPortal, https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/scisat-1, OPENED 2026-10-26: 'SciSat-1/ACE is a relatively small satellite with a diameter of 112 cm, a height of 104 cm and a total mass of 150kg.'; 'uses a circular instrument/component aluminium mounting plate (1.12 m in diameter) as the main structure of the platform'; 'The spacecraft is always in a sun-pointing configuration. S/C power (75 W orbital average, triple junction solar cells ...) is generated by a single body-mounted solar panel.' OURS: the instruments' sizes and places inside the 104 cm height, read off the labelled drawing.

## References

- [scisat-1](https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/scisat-1), Canadian Space Agency (CSA and Bristol Aerospace pictures as shown by eoPortal (non-commercial terms): LOOKED AT ONLY, never fetched by the tool and on no sheet)