StriX
Shape built from published dimensions and pictures; details simplified.
Turn it in 3D
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The viewer loads when you ask: about 700 kB the first time (three.js and the model), much less after.
Pictures 4
Three-quarter view
From the side
From behind
From above
About this model
StriX is one of the 203 3D models Space Radar made itself: a satellite, 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 3,678 triangles in a 26 kB glTF file, and is 5.0 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
eoPortal, 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. (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 and a photograph of Synspective's model of StriX by Blervis (CC0).
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 (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)
Where the map uses it. every record of klass satellite with the word STRIX in its name (11 in the live saved data on 2026-10-13, `STRIX-1` to `STRIX-12`), in the whole active catalogue: Synspective's 100 kg class radar satellites. They were, and while this file is on its way still are, the shared radar blade (scene/models.js `radar`: a 12 m antenna under a bus with two wings); public #984
Licence note. CC0 (a visitor's photograph of Synspective's own 1/6 model, which the layout was read off; nothing of the picture is in the file); the shape is this project's, under this repository's licence. NO LOGO AND NO LETTERING is on the mesh.
References 1
What the shape was compared with. None of these pictures is in the file.
- StriX Satellite ModelBlervis (Wikimedia Commons)CC0 (Blervis, own work; the Commons API's LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-13)
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:
StriX 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:
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