Sentinel-5P
Shape built from published dimensions and pictures; details simplified.
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About this model
Sentinel-5P 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 7,850 triangles in a 44 kB glTF file, and is 5.6 m across at full scale.
On Space Radar’s live map it is drawn for the object with NORAD catalogue number 42969, where its published orbit puts it now. Open it on the map.
Dimensions and their sources
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Height | 3.35 m |
| Diameter | 5.63 m |
| Solar array area | 5.4 m² |
| Wings | 3 |
| Tropomi | 1.4 × 0.65 × 0.75 m |
| Radiator | 1.5 m² |
ESA, 'Facts and figures', esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-5P/…, OPENED 2026-10-14 (words and numbers only): 'Satellite: 3.35 m high, 5.63 m diameter and a mass of 820 kg (including 82 kg fuel)'; 'Launch: 13 October 2017'; 'Revisit time: Daily global coverage (13:30 local solar time)'. eoPortal, eoportal.org/satellite-missions/copernicus-sentinel-5p, OPENED 2026-10-14: 'The satellite uses the AstroBus-L 250 M platform of Astrium'; 'The mechanical platform consists of a hexagonal structure supporting the platform electrical units and the TROPOMI ICU (Instrument Control Unit), and interfacing to a standard launch vehicle interface ring.'; 'The top floor accommodates the instrument and its radiator, as well as the star trackers and the X-band and S-band communication antennas. The instrument is mounted in a canted position, such that its radiator has an unobstructed field of view.'; 'The nominal operational scenario for the payload instrument will always be nadir-pointing in the instrument imaging mode.'; 'EPS (Electrical Power Subsystem): Three deployable solar arrays (5.4 m2) using GaAs triple-junction solar cells, supply 1500 W of average power.'; 'the 3 Star Tracker Optical Heads'; TROPOMI 'massPowerSize 206.6 kg, plus 17.4 kg for the instrument control unit 170 W (average) 1.4 m x 0.65 m x 0.75 m'; 'Payload thermal control Passive, use of a 1.5 m2 radiator'; 'Observation pointing Fixed nadir pointing'; 'LTAN (Local Time on Ascending Node) = 13.35 hours'; 'The spacecraft is 3-axis stabilized, the design provides an optional yaw steering.' DERIVED: three wings of 1.8 m2, each 1.8 x 1.0 m; their tips 2.8 m from the axis. READ OFF THE PHOTOGRAPH OF A MODEL: the gold hexagonal body; the three wings hinged at the end away from TROPOMI, one on every other face, each with a dark stay; silver patches and a patch of cells on the faces; TROPOMI and a silver trough under the radiator on the far floor, reaching past the body's edge; two white rods. OURS: the body's 1.75 m across and 2.4 m height (inside the cited 3.35 m with TROPOMI and the ring), the wings flat and square to the axis, the radiator's cant, every place on the Earth floor. (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 a photograph of a model of Sentinel-5P by SkywalkerPL (CC BY 3.0).
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 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 42969 (SENTINEL-5P), the one record in the live saved data of 2026-10-12: Copernicus's atmosphere satellite, TROPOMI on an AstroBus-L. It had no route: it wore the shape of its class, a box with two wings and a dish; public #951
Licence note. CC BY 3.0 (a Commons contributor's own photograph of a model of the craft, 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 WAS USED. NO LOGO AND NO LETTERING is on the mesh.
References 1
What the shape was compared with. None of these pictures is in the file.
- Sentinel 5P modelSkywalkerPL (Wikimedia Commons)CC BY 3.0 (SkywalkerPL, own work; the Commons API's LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-14)
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-5P 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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