# WGS 3D model

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

Free 3D model of WGS, a satellite, built from published dimensions by Space Radar. 12,580 triangles, 65 kB glTF, MIT.

- **Class:** Satellites
- **Mission:** Communications
- **Triangles:** 12,580
- **File:** wgs.glb, 65 kB, glTF 2.0 binary (meshopt)
- **Look:** Flat colours
- **Size:** 41 m across
- **Made:** Built from dimensions
- **Added:** 2026-10-27
- **Download:** https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/main/site/models/wgs.glb
- **Mirror:** https://git.sara-agent.org/sara-projects/space-radar/raw/branch/main/site/models/wgs.glb
- **Viewer:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/model/?id=wgs
- **Licence:** MIT (https://github.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/blob/main/LICENSE)
- **Credit:** WGS 3D model by Space Radar (spaceradar.ai), MIT License

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

## 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 public US Air Force drawings and published numbers (public domain sources).

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 has none of this craft and no agency model of it was found on 2026-10-27). ONLY PUBLIC, OFFICIALLY RELEASED PICTURES AND NUMBERS WERE USED: nothing beyond what the US Air Force, Space Force, Navy or the maker has released is drawn, and where a page does not say (the inside of a sensor, a payload's layout, the size of a part) the part is a plain closed shape or is left out, and the row says which.

## Dimensions

- Span: 40.9 m

Source: NO PAGE OPENED GIVES WGS'S OWN SIZE. The Space Force fact sheet (losangeles.spaceforce.mil, media.defense.gov) answered 403 on 2026-10-27; Wikipedia and Gunter's Space Page give mass (5 987 kg launch, about 3 000 kg dry) and bus (Boeing 702HP) but no metres. ASTRONAUTIX'S entry for the Boeing HS 702 bus gives 'deployed length 40.9 m maximum' and a stowed 2.0 x 3.2 m cross-section: those are the family's, and are USED HERE AS THE CRAFT'S SIZE, which is ILLUSTRATIVE. Proportions (two octagonal arrays, two clusters of dishes, a long array of six sections each side) are read off the Air Force's own released art (Commons: MC-2941, Wideband Global SATCOM (3194626), public domain).

## References

- [MC-2941 Wideband Global SATCOM Satellite](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MC-2941_Wideband_Global_SATCOM_Satellite.png), United States Air Force (Wikimedia Commons) (Public domain (United States Air Force; the Commons API's LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-27))
- [Wideband Global SATCOM (3194626)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wideband_Global_SATCOM_(3194626).jpg), U.S. Air Force (Wikimedia Commons) (Public domain (U.S. Air Force, dvidshub 3194626; the Commons API's LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-27))
- [Wideband Global SATCOM.png](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wideband_Global_SATCOM.png), U.S. Strategic Command (Wikimedia Commons) (Public domain (U.S. Strategic Command; the Commons API's LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-27))