# Shenzhou orbital module 3D model

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

Free 3D model of Shenzhou orbital module, a crewed craft or station, built from published dimensions by Space Radar. 3,080 triangles, 36 kB glTF, MIT.

- **Class:** Stations and crewed craft
- **Mission:** Human spaceflight
- **Triangles:** 3,080
- **File:** shenzhou-orbital.glb, 36 kB, glTF 2.0 binary (meshopt)
- **Look:** Flat colours
- **Size:** 2.8 m across
- **Made:** Built from dimensions
- **Added:** 2026-10-20
- **NORAD:** 66515, 67481, 69328
- **Download:** https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/main/site/models/shenzhou-orbital.glb
- **Mirror:** https://git.sara-agent.org/sara-projects/space-radar/raw/branch/main/site/models/shenzhou-orbital.glb
- **Viewer:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/model/?id=shenzhou-orbital
- **On the live map:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/#at=sat-66515
- **Licence:** MIT (https://github.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/blob/main/LICENSE)
- **Credit:** Shenzhou orbital module 3D model by Space Radar (spaceradar.ai), MIT License

Canonical: https://models.spaceradar.ai/shenzhou-orbital/

## 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 stills by China News Service (CC BY 4.0).

built by this project in code (tools of release 1.3.0 stage W1-a), from the orbital module's part of the lathe profile of the row `shenzhou` (the cited metres) and the pictures under `references`; no image-to-3D model was used, and no published mesh

## Dimensions

- Length: 2.8 m
- Diameter: 2.25 m

Source: Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhou_(spacecraft), as quoted in the row `shenzhou` (opened 2026-10-13): orbital module 'Length 2.8 m / Diameter 2.25 m'; since Shenzhou 8 'the orbital module in front carries no solar wings' (zh.wikipedia caption quoted there). The docking mechanism's 0.75 m and the curve of the dome are the row `shenzhou`'s, not cited

## References

- [Shenzhou 21 docking with CSS view from CSS 02](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shenzhou_21_docking_with_CSS_view_from_CSS_02.png), China News Service (中国新闻社) (CC BY 4.0 (Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-20))
- [Shenzhou 21 docking with CSS view from docking hatch 01](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shenzhou_21_docking_with_CSS_view_from_docking_hatch_01.png), China News Service (中国新闻社) (CC BY 4.0 (Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-20))