Shenzhou
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
Shenzhou is one of the 203 3D models Space Radar made itself: a crewed craft or station, 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 11,700 triangles in a 66 kB glTF file, and is 17 m across at full scale.
It is part of the map’s library; no object on the live map is drawn with it today.
Dimensions and their sources
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Length | 9.25 m |
| Diameter | 2.8 m |
| Span | 17 m |
CMSA's English page, en.cmse.gov.cn/constitutes/mannedspaceshipsystem, opened 2026-10-13, carries NO dimensions (nor does its Chinese twin). Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhou_(spacecraft), opened 2026-10-13: infobox 'dimensions = 9.25 x 2.8 m'; 'Length 9.25 m / Diameter 2.8 m / Span 17 m'; orbital module 'Length 2.8 m / Diameter 2.25 m'; re-entry module 'Length 2.5 m / Diameter 2.52 m'; service module 'Length 2.94 m / Basic diameter 2.5 m / Maximum diameter 2.8 m / Span 17 m'. THE THREE MODULES ADD UP TO 8.24 m, not 9.25 m: the 1.01 m left over is built as the docking mechanism in front (0.75 m) and the joints. ONE PAIR OF WINGS: zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/神舟载人飞船, opened 2026-10-13, a caption: '神舟飞船后期型号（八号及之后）结构，前方轨道舱不带太阳翼' (the later models, Shenzhou 8 onward: the orbital module in front carries no solar wings); en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhou_7, opened 2026-10-13: 'The Orbital module has been modified and its solar panels removed in order to allow for the EVA experiment.' THE ENGLISH PAGE CONTRADICTS ITSELF (it also says, in the present tense, 'Two pairs of solar panels'), and a popular Chinese article gives other numbers (ourchinastory.com/cn/11932: 9 m long, the modules 2.8, 2 and 3.05 m): the English table is built. NOT CITED: the wings' 2 m width and four panels a side, the curve of each module between its numbers, every antenna (read 2026-10-13)
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 the published dimensions of the Shenzhou spacecraft.
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
Where the map uses it. any record on the stations layer whose name has the word SHENZHOU (today SHENZHOU-23 (SZ-23)): China's crewed ship. It was, and while this file is on its way still is, the procedural Shenzhou (scene/models.js `shenzhou`); public #941
Licence note. No picture ships and none was traced: CMSA's own pictures are not free, and the one drawing looked at (named under `references`) is CC BY-SA 4.0, used for nothing but which part is where; the shape is this project's, under this repository's licence
References 1
What the shape was compared with. None of these pictures is in the file.
- Shenzhou spacecraft vector diagramIlya 'Yadra' Kharlamov (uploader), Wikimedia CommonsCC BY-SA 4.0 (read on the file's page); NOT REPRODUCED
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:
Shenzhou 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.
Or embed the viewer in your page:
<iframe src="https://www.spaceradar.ai/model/?id=shenzhou" title="Shenzhou, 3D model by Space Radar" width="600" height="450" loading="lazy" style="border:0;max-width:100%"></iframe>Related models
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