# WorldView-3 3D model

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

Free 3D model of WorldView-3, a satellite, built from published dimensions by Space Radar. 13,730 triangles, 109 kB glTF, MIT.

- **Class:** Satellites
- **Mission:** Earth observation
- **Triangles:** 13,730
- **File:** worldview-3.glb, 109 kB, glTF 2.0 binary (meshopt)
- **Look:** Physically based
- **Size:** 7.1 m across
- **Made:** Built from dimensions
- **Added:** 2026-10-27
- **NORAD:** 40115
- **Download:** https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/main/site/models/worldview-3.glb
- **Mirror:** https://git.sara-agent.org/sara-projects/space-radar/raw/branch/main/site/models/worldview-3.glb
- **Viewer:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/model/?id=worldview-3
- **On the live map:** https://www.spaceradar.ai/#at=sat-40115
- **Licence:** MIT (https://github.com/Sara-Managed-Projects/space-radar/blob/main/LICENSE)
- **Credit:** WorldView-3 3D model by Space Radar (spaceradar.ai), MIT License

Canonical: https://models.spaceradar.ai/worldview-3/

## 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 eoPortal's published dimensions; compared with the operator's pictures, looked at only.

built by this project in code (release 1.3.0's part library, lib.py and parts.py, kept with the stage's notes in ~/space-radar-handoff/release-1.4/r14-m5/build, one script a craft), 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, read 2026-10-27) has none of this craft, and no operator of it was found to publish a model under a free licence (searched 2026-10-27)

## Dimensions

- Height: 5.7 m
- Width: 2.5 m
- Span: 7.1 m
- Aperture: 1.1 m
- Mass: 2812 kg

Source: eoPortal, https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/worldview-3, OPENED 2026-10-27: 'Spacecraft size: 5.7 m tall x 2.5 m across; 7.1 m across with the solar panels deployed', 'Spacecraft mass: 2812 kg', 'The telescope primary mirror features an aperture diameter of 110 cm', 'The BCP 5000 bus', actuators 'CMGs (Control Moment Gyros)', sensors 'Star trackers (Ball CT-602)'; the CAVIS imager 'has standalone optics'. WorldView-1 (3.6 m x 2.5 m) and WorldView-2 (4.3 m x 2.5 m, 'identical bus to WV-1') are on eoPortal's pages for them. OURS: the split of the 5.7 m between bus (2.4 m) and barrel, the hexagonal barrel and the eight-sided bus, the wings' panel sizes (three of about 2.2 x 0.68 m, laid out as the artist's picture shows), every instrument's size and place, the dish arms, the colours

## References

- [Artist's rendition of the deployed WorldView-3 (eoPortal figure 1)](https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/worldview-3), DigitalGlobe (looked at only; not free)
- [WorldView-3 during assembly, integration and test (eoPortal figure 3)](https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/worldview-3), BATC (looked at only; not free)
- [WorldView-3 at BATC before shipment (eoPortal figure 4)](https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/worldview-3), BATC (looked at only; not free)
- [A control moment gyroscope into WorldView-3 (eoPortal figure 2)](https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/worldview-3), BATC (looked at only; not free)