# StriX 3D model

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

Free 3D model of StriX, a satellite, built from published dimensions by Space Radar. 3,678 triangles, 26 kB glTF, MIT.

- **Class:** Satellites
- **Mission:** Earth observation
- **Triangles:** 3,678
- **File:** strix.glb, 26 kB, glTF 2.0 binary (meshopt)
- **Look:** Flat colours
- **Size:** 5.0 m across
- **Made:** Built from dimensions
- **Added:** 2026-10-14
- **Download:** https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/main/site/models/strix.glb
- **Mirror:** https://git.sara-agent.org/sara-projects/space-radar/raw/branch/main/site/models/strix.glb
- **Viewer:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/model/?id=strix
- **Licence:** MIT (https://github.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/blob/main/LICENSE)
- **Credit:** StriX 3D model by Space Radar (spaceradar.ai), MIT License

Canonical: https://models.spaceradar.ai/strix/

## 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 a photograph of Synspective's model of StriX by Blervis (CC0).

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 (NASA's 3D Resources on GitHub, 1 583 paths read 2026-10-13, has none of this craft; the survey of 2026-10-13 found no agency model of it under usable terms)

## Dimensions

- Antenna long: 5 m
- Antenna wide: 0.8 m
- Deployed depth: 1 m
- Launch 1: 0.8 m
- Launch 2: 1 m
- Launch 3: 0.8 m
- Antenna panels: 7

Source: eoPortal, https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/strix, OPENED 2026-10-13, 'Table 1: StriX Spacecraft Specifications': 'Spacecraft class ~100 kg class'; 'Launch configuration dimensions 80 × 100 × 80 cm'; 'Deployed dimensions 500 × 100 × 80 cm'; 'Antenna type Deployable parallel-plate slot array antenna'; 'Antenna dimensions 500 × 80 cm'; 'Number of antenna panels 7 deployable panel'; its text: 'The satellite will deploy its five-meter-long antenna once in orbit, which contains solar panels on the two “wings” of the antenna.' DERIVED: seven panels of 0.714 x 0.8 m; the bus 0.72 x 0.8 m behind the middle one and 0.96 m deep. READ OFF THE CC0 PHOTOGRAPH of the maker's 1/6 model: three panels a side of the bus; four cells in orange frames on the space side of each; the bus's yellow-green foil; hinges at the joints. OURS: the Earth side of the antenna as a pale plate with two slot lines a panel (no free picture shows that side); the small boxes on the bus.

## References

- [StriX Satellite Model](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StriX_Satellite_Model.jpg), Blervis (Wikimedia Commons) (CC0 (Blervis, own work; the Commons API's LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-13))