Space Radar

Asset pack

Free 3D spacecraft models and planetary maps

Everything here was made by Space Radar: 203 spacecraft models built from published dimensions and photographs, and 10 relief and colour maps baked from public-domain spacecraft data. Download them, use them in a game, a film, a print or a lesson, commercial work included, with the credit line under each one.

The whole list as JSON

Each file is served from where the app loads it; nothing is a second copy.

How the licences are chosen

The models are glTF 2.0 binaries (.glb) compressed with meshopt (EXT_meshopt_compression), with flat colours and no textures: three.js reads them with GLTFLoader and its MeshoptDecoder; Blender reads them after gltf-transform decompress. Measured is what the dimensions say; modelled is how the parts in between were drawn. Each entry says how it was made.

Spacecraft models

Satellites (130)

Telescopes (15)

Stations and crew craft (18)

Probes (10)

Landers and rovers (18)

Rockets and stages (12)

Relief and colour maps

Procedural shapes

51 class shapes (a CubeSat, a Starlink, a navigation satellite, a rocket stage) are built in code, not loaded from a file: site/js/scene/models.js, under the MIT licence. Credit: Procedural spacecraft shapes: Space Radar (spaceradar.ai), MIT.

The live cloud pictures are composited in each visitor's browser from NASA's newest geostationary images (GIBS), so there is no file to offer; NASA's own pages have the originals.

New and changed

The files most recently changed, from the project's history.

Not ours: get these from their makers

The app also uses maps and models that others made. They are theirs to license and are not offered here.

How this page is made

It is generated on every deploy from the project's registries by scripts/asset_pack.py, so it lists exactly what ships. A wrong credit or licence? Tell us on GitHub (it needs a free GitHub account).