Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) is a Norwegian commercial company and a leading provider of ground station services and Earth observation services, connecting space and Earth. They operate a global network of ground stations, including polar and mid-latitude stations, with over 270 antennas, offering satellite tracking and control, launch support, and data reception. KSAT partners with organizations like NASA, JAXA, and Rocket Lab to provide communication services for spacecraft and support missions in low-Earth orbit and lunar exploration. Key activities include ground network services, Earth observation, maritime monitoring, and environmental monitoring using satellite data.
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KSAT works with selected partner sites that provide strategic complementary capabilities, additional capacity, and redundancy to KSAT’s network.
KSAT has designed and deployed a purpose-designed baseband solution at several partner sites and is integrating further partner sites.
KSAT uses a partnership approach when establishing a global network for lunar communications and works with selected partner sites.
Increasing cislunar activity is prompting Kongsberg Satellite Services to invest in a lunar communications network.
Kongsberg Satellite Services has operated communications networks for satellites in low, medium, and geostationary Earth orbit for decades.
Customers will reserve time to contact lunar spacecraft through the same API used by companies operating satellites in Earth orbit with Kongsberg Satellite Services.
Kongsberg Satellite Services is designing the lunar network and identifying three sites for large antennas to provide continuous coverage for lunar missions and lunar data relay constellations.
Kongsberg Satellite Services will provide communications for the Lunar InfraRed Imaging (LunIR) mission using ground stations in Punta Arenas, Chile; Svalbard, Norway; and Troll Station, Antarctica.
Kongsberg Satellite Services is providing ground station services for the satellites Acme is preparing to send to sun-synchronous orbit.
QuadSAT performed in-situ verification of 10 antennas at the KSAT Svalbard Ground Station in Norway.
Kongsberg Satellite Services, a ground station operator based in Norway, has opened an office in Colorado.
KSAT will provide ground network support to the LunIR mission in collaboration with Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Terran Orbital Corporation.
Tyvak will manage LunIR’s mission operations using ground station communication services provided by KSAT.
Tyvak will manage LunIR’s spacecraft mission operations using ground station communication services provided by KSAT.
Kongsberg Satellite Services is designing a ground network for lunar data relay satellites as part of a consortium led by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. under the European Space Agency Moonlight Initiative.
KSAT’s Satellite Operation Center provides both hands-on and automated systems for managing satellites from launch to decommissioning.
KSAT is half owned by Space Norway and uses the subsea cables to connect 100 Svalbard ground stations.
The subsea cables connect around 100 ground stations on Svalbard that are operated by KSAT.
Connectivity services at KSAT’s ground station remain nominal through the other subsea cable that Space Norway operates, which runs nearly parallel some five to 10 km away on the seabed.
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