WorldView-3
Shape built from published dimensions and pictures; details simplified.
Turn it in 3D
Open the 3D viewer (www.spaceradar.ai).
The viewer loads when you ask: about 700 kB the first time (three.js and the model), much less after.
Pictures 4
Three-quarter view
From the side
From behind
From above
About this model
WorldView-3 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 13,730 triangles in a 109 kB glTF file, and is 7.1 m across at full scale.
On Space Radar’s live map it is drawn for the object with NORAD catalogue number 40115, where its published orbit puts it now. Open it on the map.
Dimensions and their sources
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Height | 5.7 m |
| Width | 2.5 m |
| Span | 7.1 m |
| Aperture | 1.1 m |
| Mass | 2812 kg |
eoPortal, 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 (read 2026-10-27)
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.
The full record
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)
Where the map uses it. NORAD 40115, WorldView-3, the Maxar (DigitalGlobe) 30 cm imager launched in August 2014, on Ball's BCP 5000 bus: a hexagonal telescope barrel under the bus with the aperture to the Earth, the bus above it with two wings of three panels. It wore the class shape of a satellite, a box with two wings; public #976. NOT WorldView-1, -2, GeoEye-1 or Legion: WorldView-1 and -2 share the bus but not the height (3.6 and 4.3 m against 5.7 m) and no drawing gives where the barrel ends, so they are not routed; GeoEye-1 is on the SA-200HP bus (4.35 x 2.7 m stowed, 1 955 kg) and Legion on Maxar's 500 series (750 kg): other buses
Licence note. No operator picture or model is in the file: the pictures named `LOOKED AT ONLY` were looked at for the layout and are on no sheet. The shape is this project's, under this repository's licence, built from published numbers (facts). NO LOGO, FLAG OR LETTERING is on the mesh.
References 4
What the shape was compared with. None of these pictures is in the file.
- Artist's rendition of the deployed WorldView-3 (eoPortal figure 1)DigitalGlobelooked at only; not free
- WorldView-3 during assembly, integration and test (eoPortal figure 3)BATClooked at only; not free
- WorldView-3 at BATC before shipment (eoPortal figure 4)BATClooked at only; not free
- A control moment gyroscope into WorldView-3 (eoPortal figure 2)BATClooked at only; not free
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:
WorldView-3 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:
<iframe src="https://www.spaceradar.ai/model/?id=worldview-3" title="WorldView-3, 3D model by Space Radar" width="600" height="450" loading="lazy" style="border:0;max-width:100%"></iframe>Related models
