# SPOT 6 and 7 3D model

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

Free 3D model of SPOT 6 and 7, a satellite, built from published dimensions by Space Radar. 14,124 triangles, 104 kB glTF, MIT.

- **Class:** Satellites
- **Mission:** Earth observation
- **Triangles:** 14,124
- **File:** spot67.glb, 104 kB, glTF 2.0 binary (meshopt)
- **Look:** Flat colours
- **Size:** 2.7 m across
- **Made:** Built from dimensions
- **Added:** 2026-11-04
- **NORAD:** 38755
- **Download:** https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/main/site/models/spot67.glb
- **Mirror:** https://git.sara-agent.org/sara-projects/space-radar/raw/branch/main/site/models/spot67.glb
- **Viewer:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/model/?id=spot-6-7
- **On the live map:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/#at=sat-38755
- **Licence:** MIT (https://github.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/blob/main/LICENSE)
- **Credit:** SPOT 6 and 7 3D model by Space Radar (spaceradar.ai), MIT License

Canonical: https://models.spaceradar.ai/spot-6-7/

## 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 dimensions published by eoPortal and ESA Earth Online and from pictures of SPOT 6 and 7 (EADS Astrium, ISRO, Airbus Defence and Space), looked at only.

built by this project in code (the private tool model-from-images: assemble.py, from a yaml of primitives, object `imaging-spot67`), from the cited numbers and the pictures under `references`; no image-to-3D model was used, and no published mesh of the craft (Airbus and ESA publish none; the pictures on eoPortal and Gunter's Space Page carry no free licence, so they were looked at only)

## Dimensions

- Body x: 1.55 m
- Body y: 1.75 m
- Body z: 2.7 m
- Mass: 712 kg
- Solar area: 5.4 m²
- Panels: 3
- Panel: 1.15 × 1.55 m
- Naomi aperture: 0.2 m
- Naomi telescopes: 2

Source: eoPortal, 'SPOT-6 and SPOT-7 (Azersky)', https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/spot-6-7, OPENED 2026-11-03, Table 1: 'Body: ~ 1.55 m x 1.75 m x 2.7 m' and 'Solar array wingspan area: 5.4 m2' (the same table's other column, 'Body: 3.1 m x 3.1 m x 5.7 m', 'Solar array wingspan area: 8 m2', is SPOT-5's and was not used); NAOMI 'two identical Korsch telescopes in silicon carbide that each deliver an aperture of 200mm'; 'A single Isoflux antenna provides the necessary ground coverage' (X-band); 'A standard S-band TT&C system with full spherical coverage in uplink and downlink'; the HYDRA multi-head star tracker (figure 4); 'GaAs triple junction solar cell based arrays'. ESA Earth Online 'SPOT 6', https://earth.esa.int/eogateway/missions/spot-6/description, OPENED 2026-11-03: '1.55 m x 1.75 m x 2.7 m' and 712 kg. Gunter's Space Page, https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/spot-6.htm, OPENED 2026-11-03: 'Configuration: AstroSat-500 Mk.2 (AstroBus-L)', 'Power: 3 deployable solar arrays, batteries', 'Mass: 712 kg'. PAGES DISAGREE: eoPortal's Table 1 says 714 kg (and its text 'a launch mass of ~ 800 kg'), ESA and Gunter say 712 kg; eoPortal calls the bus 'AstroBus-L (also known as AstroSat-250 or AS250)', Gunter 'AstroSat-500 Mk.2 (AstroBus-L)'. The body metres are the same on both pages and are what was built; the mass is not in the mesh. DERIVED: three panels of 5.4 m2 in all are 1.8 m2 each, drawn 1.15 m by 1.55 m (1.78 m2 each, 5.35 m2). NOT CITED, read off the pictures: how the panels stand (round the body's long axis, hinged 0.12 m off the faces, 0.9 m of each beyond the body's top face), the baffles' 0.34 m diameter, 0.62 m spacing and 0.3 m height, the Isoflux dish's size and place, the radiator plates, the rails, the adapter cone's size, the star-tracker heads' places and every colour.

## References

- [eoPortal, 'SPOT-6 and SPOT-7 (Azersky)', figure 7 'Illustration of the deployed SPOT-6 spacecraft'](https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/spot-6-7), EADS Astrium (no licence stated (credit EADS Astrium; read 2026-11-03): LOOKED AT ONLY, not reproduced)
- [eoPortal, 'SPOT-6 and SPOT-7 (Azersky)', figures 1, 8 and 9](https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/spot-6-7), EADS Astrium; ISRO; Airbus Defence and Space (no licence stated (credits EADS Astrium, ISRO, Airbus Defence and Space; read 2026-11-03): LOOKED AT ONLY, not reproduced)
- [Gunter's Space Page, 'SPOT 6, 7 / Azersky' (illustration 'SPOT 6 [Astrium]')](https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/spot-6.htm), Astrium (no licence stated (credit Astrium; read 2026-11-03): LOOKED AT ONLY, not reproduced)
- [Wikipedia, 'SPOT (satellite)', section SPOT 6 and SPOT 7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPOT_(satellite)#SPOT_6_and_SPOT_7), Wikipedia contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0 (text; read 2026-11-03): cited for a fact, nothing copied)