VAKE is a Norwegian tech startup specializing in maritime surveillance using machine learning to process multispectral satellite images. Their core activity involves developing Maritime Domain Awareness by detecting and analyzing vessel behavior, including "dark vessels," through AI-boosted satellite data. VAKE's services are used for monitoring oceans for defense and environmental purposes, offering integration of commercial satellite data into their products. In early 2024, Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) acquired a majority stake in VAKE to enhance maritime domain awareness, offshore asset protection, and shipping activity tracking.
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KSAT integrated its satellite antenna network, Earth observation capabilities, and maritime expertise with VAKE’s advanced AI and visualization tools for the Vake Powered By KSAT platform.
KSAT acquired VAKE in 2024.
The Vake Powered By KSAT platform is intended to accelerate maritime decision making for users such as coast guards and navies.
The Vake Powered By KSAT platform makes maritime detection, identification, and tracking information available through a single interface.
The combined KSAT and VAKE organization is pursuing shorter decision cycles by reducing the time from satellite collection to information delivery across multiple satellite operators.
The Vake Powered By KSAT platform provides options to task new satellite collections directly from the platform interface.
The Vake Powered By KSAT platform delivers detection, identification, and tracking of dark vessels from space using data from optical, radiofrequency, and radar satellites operated by 15 different providers.
VAKE’s analytics trained on KSAT’s maritime database can detect, describe, and recognize vessels and highlight anomalies within an area of interest.
The Vake Powered By KSAT platform is designed for ease of access and integration and can be incorporated into existing systems.
KSAT has built a high-quality historical database of maritime activity that is leveraged with VAKE’s analytics to train AI systems.
Vake Powered by KSAT integrates data from 15 satellite providers using optical satellites, radio-frequency satellites, and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites to detect, identify, and track vessels without AIS.
Vake Powered by KSAT combines KSAT’s platform with AI and visualization technologies from VAKE, a maritime domain awareness solutions provider that KSAT acquired in March 2024, to monitor high-traffic and remote sea areas.
On January 26, 2026, Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) launched the maritime domain awareness platform Vake Powered by KSAT to support Maritime Domain Awareness from space.
The Vake platform combines KSAT’s global ground station network with advanced artificial intelligence to provide persistent monitoring of high-traffic and remote maritime zones.
Vake Powered By KSAT monitors areas and vessels of interest using multiple data sources.
The Vake system is designed to automatically adjust collection parameters based on feature detections, such as vessel signatures that do not correlate with known AIS data.
KSAT acquired VAKE in 2024.
The Vake Powered By KSAT platform is designed to make space-powered maritime situational awareness easier to access, integrate, and use.
The Vake platform uses an internalized value chain spanning tasking, collection, and processing to allow dynamic rescheduling of satellite assets during contingency events.
Kongsberg Satellite Services launched Vake Powered by KSAT, a consolidated maritime situational awareness platform designed to detect, identify, and track non-cooperative or dark vessels.