# TIMED 3D model

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

Free 3D model of TIMED, a satellite, built from published dimensions by Space Radar. 16,058 triangles, 148 kB glTF, MIT.

- **Class:** Satellites
- **Mission:** Technology and science
- **Triangles:** 16,058
- **File:** timed.glb, 148 kB, glTF 2.0 binary (meshopt)
- **Look:** Physically based
- **Size:** 12 m across
- **Made:** Built from dimensions
- **Added:** 2026-10-21
- **NORAD:** 26998
- **Download:** https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/main/site/models/timed.glb
- **Mirror:** https://git.sara-agent.org/sara-projects/space-radar/raw/branch/main/site/models/timed.glb
- **Viewer:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/model/?id=timed
- **On the live map:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/#at=sat-26998
- **Licence:** MIT (https://github.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/blob/main/LICENSE)
- **Credit:** TIMED 3D model by Space Radar (spaceradar.ai), MIT License

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

## 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 NASA's and APL's published dimensions; compared with NASA's render (public domain).

built by this project in code (release 1.3.0 stage W3-a's part library, lib.py, and one script a craft, kept with the stage's notes); no image-to-3D model was used, and no published mesh: NASA's 3D Resources (1 583 paths) and NASA Science's 3D models have none of this craft (read 2026-10-20)

## Dimensions

- Height: 2.72 m
- Depth: 1.2 m
- Span: 11.73 m
- Panel length: 1.253 m
- Panel width: 1.197 m

Source: TIMED QuickFacts (https://spdf.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/data/timed/documentation/mdc/QuickFacts.pdf), OPENED 2026-10-20: '8.93 feet (2.72 meters) high', '38.5 feet (11.73 meters) wide (solar arrays deployed)', '3.93 feet (1.2 meters) deep'. Kusnierkiewicz, APL Tech. Digest 24(2): 'two rotating wings, each consisting of four solar panels'; 'a graphite-epoxy optical bench on the top of the spacecraft where the two star trackers and four TIDI telescopes are mounted'; GUVI 'on the underside of the spacecraft, inside an adapter ring'; SABER 'on the side panel of the spacecraft that is always kept facing away from the Sun'. CDR 13: solar panel '49.34 L x 47.12 W x 5/8 H', '20 Deg Panel Droop'; deck '57.50' x '46.00'; optical bench '45.000' x '24.000'. Built span 11.97 m: the cited panels and droop on a short yoke (2 % over the cited 11.73 m). OURS: the shapes of SEE, the profiler, SABER's housing, the yoke, the mast heights

## References

- [TIMED](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TIMED.jpg), NASA (Public domain (NASA; Commons LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-20))
- [JHU/APL Technical Digest 24(2), the TIMED issue (Vernon; Yee; Kusnierkiewicz)](https://spdf.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/data/timed/documentation/mdc/), JHU/APL (JHU/APL; looked at only)
- [TIMED Critical Design Review, 13 Mechanical Systems (1997)](https://spdf.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/data/timed/documentation/mdc/Reviews/CDR/13-Mechanical_Systems.pdf), JHU/APL (NASA/JHU-APL; looked at only)