Soyuz MS
Shape built from published dimensions and pictures; details simplified.
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Pictures 4
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About this model
Soyuz MS 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 9,808 triangles in a 59 kB glTF file, and is 11 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 | 7.48 m |
| Skirt diameter | 2.72 m |
| Span | 10.7 m |
| Orbital module diameter | 2.26 m |
| Descent module diameter | 2.17 m |
NASA, 'Reference Guide to the International Space Station' (NP-2015-05-022-JSC), page 66, nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/np-2015-05-022-jsc-iss-guide…, 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: 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 (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 published dimensions, a NASA photograph and NASA drawings of the Soyuz.
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 SOYUZ (today SOYUZ-MS 29): Russia's crewed ship. It was, and while this file is on its way still is, the procedural Soyuz (scene/models.js `soyuz`: a ball, a cone and a drum from the same metres); public #939
Licence note. Public domain (the NASA photograph and the two NASA drawings it was drawn from); the shape is this project's, under this repository's licence
References 3
What the shape was compared with. None of these pictures is in the file.
- Soyuz MS-19 Spacecraft departs the ISS (iss067e000259)NASAPublic domain (NASA Johnson Space Center)
- Soyuz-TM drawingNASAPublic domain (NASA Reference Publication 1357, figure 1-30)
- Drawing-Soyuz-TMA-exp12NASAPublic domain (NASA)
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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:
Soyuz MS 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=soyuz-ms" title="Soyuz MS, 3D model by Space Radar" width="600" height="450" loading="lazy" style="border:0;max-width:100%"></iframe>Related models
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