# Soyuz MS 3D model

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

Free 3D model of Soyuz MS, a crewed craft or station, built from published dimensions by Space Radar. 9,808 triangles, 59 kB glTF, MIT.

- **Class:** Stations and crewed craft
- **Mission:** Human spaceflight
- **Triangles:** 9,808
- **File:** soyuz-ms.glb, 59 kB, glTF 2.0 binary (meshopt)
- **Look:** Flat colours
- **Size:** 11 m across
- **Made:** Built from dimensions
- **Added:** 2026-10-13
- **Download:** https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/main/site/models/soyuz-ms.glb
- **Mirror:** https://git.sara-agent.org/sara-projects/space-radar/raw/branch/main/site/models/soyuz-ms.glb
- **Viewer:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/model/?id=soyuz-ms
- **Licence:** MIT (https://github.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/blob/main/LICENSE)
- **Credit:** Soyuz MS 3D model by Space Radar (spaceradar.ai), MIT License

Canonical: https://models.spaceradar.ai/soyuz-ms/

## 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, a NASA photograph and NASA drawings of the Soyuz.

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

## Dimensions

- Length: 7.48 m
- Skirt diameter: 2.72 m
- Span: 10.7 m
- Orbital module diameter: 2.26 m
- Descent module diameter: 2.17 m

Source: NASA, 'Reference Guide to the International Space Station' (NP-2015-05-022-JSC), page 66, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/np-2015-05-022-jsc-iss-guide-2015-update-111015-508c.pdf, opened 2026-10-13: 'Length 7 m (22.9 ft)', 'Maximum diameter 2.7 m (8.9 ft)', 'Diameter of habitable modules 2.2 m (7.2 ft)', 'Solar array span 10.6 m (34.8 ft)'; NASA gives no length a module. The modules: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_(spacecraft), the specifications table's column 'Soyuz MS (2016-present)', opened 2026-10-13: 7.48 m long, 2.72 m across, span 10.7 m; orbital module 2.98 m by 2.26 m, reentry module 2.24 m by 2.17 m, service module 2.26 m by 2.72 m. THE TWO DISAGREE (7 m and 10.6 m against 7.48 m and 10.7 m): Wikipedia's are built, because its module lengths add up to its total and the procedural Soyuz already used them. NOT CITED: the curve of each module between those numbers (read off NASA's two drawings), the wings' 1.4 m width and four panels a side, every antenna, the windows

## References

- [Soyuz MS-19 Spacecraft departs the ISS (iss067e000259)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Soyuz_MS-19_Spacecraft_departs_the_ISS_(iss067e000259).jpg), NASA (Public domain (NASA Johnson Space Center))
- [Soyuz-TM drawing](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Soyuz-TM_drawing.svg), NASA (Public domain (NASA Reference Publication 1357, figure 1-30))
- [Drawing-Soyuz-TMA-exp12](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Drawing-Soyuz-TMA-exp12.png), NASA (Public domain (NASA))