Sentinel-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
Sentinel-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 13,916 triangles in a 62 kB glTF file, and is 3.4 m across at full scale.
On Space Radar’s live map it is drawn for the object with NORAD catalogue number 40697, where its published orbit puts it now. Open it on the map.
Dimensions and their sources
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Body long | 3.4 m |
| Body wide | 1.8 m |
| Body high | 2.35 m |
| Msi structure long | 1.47 m |
| Msi pupil | 0.15 m |
| Solar array area | 7.1 m² |
ESA, 'Facts and figures', esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-2/F…, OPENED 2026-10-14 (words and numbers only): 'Satellite: 3.4 m long, 1.8 m wide, 2.35 m high'; 'Mass: 1140 kg (including 123 kg fuel)'; 'Launch: Sentinel-2A on 23 June 2015; Sentinel-2B on 7 March 2017; Sentinel-2C on 5 September 2024'. eoPortal, eoportal.org/satellite-missions/copernicus-sentinel-2, OPENED 2026-10-14: 'Sentinel-2 uses the AstroBus-L of Airbus Defence & Space'; 'Solar Array (one deployable and rotatable single wing with three panels). Total array area of 7.1 m 2 .'; 'SADM (Solar Array Drive Mechanism) for array articulation.'; 'The telescope features a TMA (Three Mirror Anastigmat) design with a pupil diameter of 150 mm'; 'The mechanical structure of MSI instrument holds the 3 mirrors, the beam splitter device, the 2 focal planes and 3 stellar sensors. It is furthermore mounted on the satellite through 3 bolted bipods. This main structure has a size of 1.47 m long x 0.93 m wide x 0.62 m high with a mass of only 44 kg.'; 'The satellite is controlled in 3-axes via high-rate multi-head star trackers, mounted on the camera structure'; 'X-band payload data downlink at 560 Mbit/s'; 'LCT (Laser Communication Terminal) link is provided via EDRS (European Data Relay Satellite)'; '10:30 hours LTDN (Local Time at Descending Node)'. eoPortal's table of the three Sentinels (on its Sentinel-1 page, opened the same day) gives another size: '1140 kg 3.0 m x 1.7 m x 2.2 m 1.7 kW (EOL)'; ESA's is built. DERIVED: 7.1 m2 as three panels of 1.25 x 1.9 m. READ OFF THE PHOTOGRAPHS of two models: a gold box with the instrument at one end, deeper than the bus on the Earth side, with a wide dark opening in a raised frame and a dark band where it meets the bus; one wing of three panels from the middle of a side, its long side square to the body; a white antenna and small boxes on the Earth face; a dark launch ring at the other end. OURS: the split of the 3.4 m into a 2.0 m bus and a 1.4 m instrument; the bus's 1.9 m depth; the opening's size; the star trackers', antennas', laser terminal's and radiators' places and sizes, the instrument's radiator on its sky face among them. NOT FOUND in words: which of the body's sides is the Earth's, and which way its length lies to the track. (read 2026-10-14)
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 DLR's photograph of a model of Sentinel-2 (DLR German Aerospace Center, CC BY 2.0).
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 2026-10-13, has none of this craft; the survey of 2026-10-13 found no agency model of it under usable terms; ESA's own pictures and models were NOT used: ESA's terms forbid derivative works)
Where the map uses it. NORAD 40697 (SENTINEL-2A), 42063 (SENTINEL-2B) and 60989 (SENTINEL-2C), the three in the live saved data of 2026-10-12: the Copernicus land imagers. They had no route: each wore the shape of its class, a box with two wings and a dish; public #949
Licence note. CC BY 2.0 (DLR's photograph of models at a show, which the layout was read off: looked at, with credit; nothing of the picture is in the file); the shape is this project's, under this repository's licence, built from published numbers (facts). NO ESA PICTURE IS IN THE FILE OR WAS DERIVED FROM: one photograph by ESA of the craft at Kourou (share-alike) was LOOKED AT for the gold of its blankets and nothing else. 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.
- Sentinel-2, TanDEM-X und TerraSAR-X - Sentinel-2, TanDEM-X and TerraSAR-X (14051016907)DLR German Aerospace CenterCC BY 2.0 (DLR German Aerospace Center, flickr; the Commons API's LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-14)
- Sentinel 2-IMG 5873-white (crop)Rama (Wikimedia Commons)CC BY-SA 2.0 fr (Rama, own work; read 2026-10-14): share-alike, LOOKED AT ONLY, never fetched by the tool and not on any sheet
- Sentinel-2A satellite - CSG - Carefully aligning the satellite to the adapterESA_events (flickr)CC BY-SA 2.0 (ESA_events, flickr; read 2026-10-14): share-alike, LOOKED AT ONLY, never fetched by the tool and not on any sheet
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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:
Sentinel-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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