Vikram (Chandrayaan-3 lander)
Shape built from published dimensions and pictures; details simplified.
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Pictures 4
Three-quarter view
From the side
From behind
From above
About this model
Vikram (Chandrayaan-3 lander) is one of the 203 3D models Space Radar made itself: a lander or rover, 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 14,642 triangles in a 136 kB glTF file, and is 2.0 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 |
|---|---|
| Width | 2 m |
| Depth | 2 m |
| Height | 1.166 m |
ISRO, LVM3-M4 / Chandrayaan-3 brochure, isro.gov.in/media_isro/pdf/Missions/LVM3/LVM3M4_Chandrayaan3_bro…, OPENED 2026-10-20: lander 'Dimensions (mm3) : 2000 x 2000 x 1166'; ISRO, isro.gov.in/Chandrayaan3_Details.html, OPENED 2026-10-20: '4 nos. of 800 N Throttleable engines & 8 nos. of 58 N', 'Lander leg Rover Ramp (Primary & Secondary) Rover ILSA, Rambha & Chaste Payloads', 'A passive Laser Retroreflector Array from NASA'. OURS: the body's 0.85 m above the ground, the footpads 2.15 m out on the diagonals, the dome (1.04 m across, 0.5 m high), the ramp (0.74 m wide, two segments of about 1.07 m), every instrument's size, all read off the pictures against the cited 2 m (read 2026-10-20)
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 ISRO's published dimensions and pictures (ISRO, GODL-India).
The full record
built by this project in code (release 1.3.0 stage W1-c's part library, lib.py, and one script a craft, kept with the stage's notes), from the cited dimensions and the pictures under `references`; 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)
Where the map uses it. the chandrayaan-3 landing site (registry/sites.yaml), Statio Shiv Shakti: Chandrayaan-3's Vikram lander as it stood there, its rover's two-part ramp down and Pragyan gone, ChaSTE's probe in the ground and ILSA set down. It was the generic lander (scene/models.js `lander`), which is still what is drawn while this file is on its way; public #1133
Licence note. The pictures it was drawn from are ISRO's, under GODL-India (Government Open Data License - India, Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-20): 'all users are provided a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, adapt, publish (either in original, or in adapted and/or derivative forms) ... for all lawful commercial and non-commercial purposes'; attribution required; names, crests and logos excluded. The shape is this project's, under this repository's licence, built from published numbers (facts). Nothing of the pictures is in the file. NO LOGO AND NO LETTERING is on the mesh.
References 4
What the shape was compared with. None of these pictures is in the file.
- Chandrayaan-3 lander in clean-room 03Indian Space Research OrganisationGODL-India (ISRO; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-20)
- Chandrayaan-3 lander in clean-room 05Indian Space Research OrganisationGODL-India (ISRO; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-20)
- Chandrayaan-3 Lander Module -ViewsIndian Space Research OrganisationGODL-India (ISRO; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-20)
- Chandrayaan-3 - Image of Vikram lander on lunar surface taken by Pragyan rover navcam at 1104 IST, 30 August 2023 from 15 meters away (without text)Indian Space Research OrganisationGODL-India (ISRO; Commons' LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-20)
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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:
Vikram (Chandrayaan-3 lander) 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.
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