WGS
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
WGS 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 12,580 triangles in a 65 kB glTF file, and is 41 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 |
|---|---|
| Span | 40.9 m |
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).
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).
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 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.
Where the map uses it. the ten Wideband Global SATCOM records (`WGS F1 (USA 195)` to `WGS 10 (USA 291)`, 10 in the live saved data of 2026-10-12), by number: the US military's broadband communications satellites on the Boeing 702HP bus, drawn as one design (the Block II and later; the Block I art differs in small ways that are not drawn). They wore the SSL-1300 stand-in; public #1096
Licence note. Public domain for the pictures read off (works of the US federal government, the Commons API's LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-27); the shape is this project's, under this repository's licence, built from published numbers (facts). NO LOGO AND NO LETTERING is on the mesh. NO MAKER'S PRESS-KIT PICTURE WAS COPIED OR PROJECTED: where one was looked at (named in `dimensions.source`) it is said so there.
References 3
What the shape was compared with. None of these pictures is in the file.
- MC-2941 Wideband Global SATCOM SatelliteUnited States Air Force (Wikimedia Commons)Public domain (United States Air Force; the Commons API's LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-27)
- Wideband Global SATCOM (3194626)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.pngU.S. Strategic Command (Wikimedia Commons)Public domain (U.S. Strategic Command; the Commons API's LicenseShortName, read 2026-10-27)
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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:
WGS 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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