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NorSat-3 launched on 2021-04-28 aboard Vega Flight VV 18 from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana.
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 is developing the NorSat-TD (Technology Demonstrator) satellite slated for launch in 2022.
SFL developed NorSat-3 under contract to the Norwegian Space Agency with funding from the Norwegian Coastal Administration.
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 is developing the NorSat-TD (Technology Demonstrator) satellite that is slated for launch in 2022.
Space Flight Laboratory built the NorSat-1 and NorSat-2 maritime tracking smallsats that are currently on orbit.
NorSat-3 was launched on 2012-04-28 aboard Arianespace’s Vega Flight VV18 from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana.
NorSat-3 is equipped with an experimental navigation radar detector developed by the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) to augment the AIS receiver.
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 contracted to design and build the NorSat-TD spacecraft and perform integration and testing of all systems and payloads.
NorSat-TD will be developed using Space Flight Laboratory’s 30x30x40-cm DEFIANT microsatellite bus with a mass of 35 kg due to additional planned payloads.
Space Flight Laboratory developed the operational NorSat-1 and NorSat-2 microsatellites launched in 2017.
NorSat-TD completed its final design review and has been slated for launch in 2022.
ThrustMe developed an iodine-fueled electric propulsion thruster that will be tested on NorSat-TD to demonstrate the ability to change a satellite’s orbit.
NorSat-2 and NorSat-TD will provide greater communication capacity for ships in Norwegian waters when operating together.
NorSat-1, NorSat-2, and NorSat-3 were built on Space Flight Laboratory’s 15-kg NEMO microsatellite platform measuring 20x20x0.4 m.
Space Norway developed the VHF Data Exchange System, an advanced communication system that first flew on NorSat-2 and has been improved for higher bandwidth and more reliable two-way communications among satellites, ships, and land.
The Norwegian Space Agency awarded Space Flight Laboratory of Canada a contract to develop the NorSat Technology Demonstrator microsatellite.
Space Flight Laboratory developed NorSat-3, which was expected to launch in 2021-04-01.