Kongsberg Satellite Services
| Kongsberg Satellite Services | |
|---|---|
| legal form | AS |
| founding | 2002 |
| Seat | Tromso |
| management | Tormod Hermansen |
| Number of employees | about 200 (2019) |
| Branch | Satellite ground stations |
| Website | ksat.no |
The Kongsberg Satellite Services AS ( KSAT ) is a Norwegian satellite telecommunications company.
KSAT operates near-polar ground stations with trackable directional radio antennas for data transmission from and to satellites in polar orbits. Its formal seat is in Tromsø . It is owned equally by the armaments group Kongsberggruppe and the Norwegian state space center , which is subordinate to the Norwegian Ministry of Economic Affairs.
In 2014 the company operated eight ground stations:
- near Longyearbyen on Spitzbergen ("SvalSat", 78 ° N, since 1996, 31 antennas)
- Tromsø , Norway (69 ° N, since 1967, 30 antennas)
- Grimstad , Norway (1 antenna)
- Hartebeesthoek , South Africa (in partnership with CSIR / SAC Satellite Application Center, 26 ° S, 28 ° E )
- Dubai (in partnership with Emirates Institution of Advanced Science and Technology, EIAST)
- Singapore
- Mauritius
- on the space occupied by Norway part of Antarctica , the Queen Maud Land ( "TrollSat" 72 ° S, 2 ° E , since 2007)
In mid-2019 there were 18 self-operated and 3 partner stations.
The client is, among others, the European Space Agency .
Web links
- Homepage (English)
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- ↑ a b c About us. Kongsberg Satellite Services, accessed July 6, 2019 .
- ↑ SPACE NORWAY AS. Brønnøysundregistrene, accessed March 22, 2014 (Norwegian).
- ^ Global Ground Station Network. KSAT, archived from the original on 20140324125633 ; accessed on March 24, 2014 (English).
- ^ Ground Station Services . KSAT, accessed on July 6, 2019.