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The Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) has contracted Safran Reosc of France to develop the miniature low-light imaging camera for NorSat-4.
Space Flight Laboratory has a contract to develop the NorSat-4 satellite for the Norwegian Space Agency (NOSA).
KONGSBERG technology is used in NorSat-3 to provide space-based vessel detection capabilities for the Norwegian Coastal Administration.
NorSat-3’s secondary payload is an experimental Navigation Radar Detector antenna and receiver supplied by the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI).
NorSat-3’s Navigation Radar Detector was developed in collaboration between FFI, KONGSBERG, the French space agency CNES, and the German electronics company ILFA.
NorSat-3 will operate in a polar Low Earth Orbit at an altitude of 605 km.
NorSat-3 was launched on 2021-04-29 from Vega Flight VV18 at the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
NorSat-3 will operate alongside four other microsatellites in the same polar LEO constellation.
The primary instrument on NorSat-3 is an Automatic Identification System (AIS) receiver that acquires messages from civilian maritime vessels to provide ship locations and marine traffic information.
SFL developed NorSat-3 under contract to the Norwegian Space Agency with funding from the Norwegian Coastal Administration.
SFL developed the 16.5-kilogram NorSat-3 microsatellite on its Next-generation Earth Monitoring and Observation (NEMO) platform.
NorSat-3 is equipped with an experimental navigation radar detector developed by the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) to augment the AIS receiver.
Detections of navigation radar from ships by NorSat-3 provide the ability to verify the accuracy of received AIS messages and to detect ships whose AIS messages have not been received.
NorSat-3 launched on 2021-04-28 aboard Vega Flight VV 18 from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana.
SFL is developing the NorSat-TD (Technology Demonstrator) satellite slated for launch in 2022.
Combining a navigation radar detector and an AIS receiver on NorSat-3 provides the ability to verify the accuracy of received AIS messages and to detect vessels whose AIS messages have not been received.
Other Space Flight Laboratory-built satellites launched in the eight months prior to NorSat-3 included missions for Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre, GHGSat Inc., HawkEye 360, Space-SI, and a Canadian-based telecommunications company.
Space Flight Laboratory built the NorSat-1 and NorSat-2 maritime tracking smallsats that are currently on orbit.
The primary instrument on NorSat-3 is an Automatic Identification System receiver that acquires messages from civilian maritime vessels to provide ship location and marine traffic information.
Space Flight Laboratory is developing the NorSat-TD (Technology Demonstrator) satellite that is slated for launch in 2022.