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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.
KSAT acquired VAKE in 2024.
VAKE developed AI-powered analytics and intuitive user interfaces in collaboration with European coast guards and navies.
Vake Powered By KSAT combines KSAT’s satellite antenna network and maritime expertise with VAKE’s AI-powered analytics and visualization.
Vake Powered By KSAT monitors areas and vessels of interest using multiple data sources.
The Vake Powered By KSAT platform is designed to make space-powered maritime situational awareness easier to access, integrate, and use.
KSAT launched the vessel detection platform Vake Powered By KSAT on January 27.
Vake Powered By KSAT enables users to task new satellite collection.
KSAT acquired a majority stake in VAKE, a Norwegian startup specializing in machine learning for maritime domain awareness, in March 2024.
The Vake system leverages a historical database and AI trained in collaboration with European navies and coast guards to autonomously highlight anomalies within a specific area of interest.
Vake is designed to address limitations of the Automatic Identification System by detecting vessels that have deactivated or spoofed AIS.
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.
The Vake platform incorporates tipping-and-cueing capability to enable near-real-time responses by maritime authorities as KSAT pursues its 2030 five-minute delivery target.
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.
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.
The Vake roadmap includes further reducing data latency and expanding the diversity of integrated data sources as satellite constellations proliferate.
Vake provides a unified portal for data compilation and the ability to task new satellite collections on-demand to simplify space-based data access for end users.