Kongsberg Satellite Services

69.66196°N 18.94225°E / 69.66196; 18.94225

Kongsberg Satellite Services AS
Company typePrivate
IndustrySpace
FoundedDecember 21, 2001 (2001-12-21)
HeadquartersTromsø, Norway
Area served
Global
ProductsGround station services
Revenue NOK 236 693 000 (before taxes, 2017)
NOK 752 139 000 (2017)
Number of employees
270 (2021)
ParentKongsberg Gruppen Norwegian Space Centre
Websiteksat.no

Kongsberg Satellite Services AS (KSAT) is a Norwegian-based company. KSAT has the most extensive ground station network globally, and the world's largest ground station for support of polar orbiting satellites located at 78° North - Svalbard, Norway. They are a provider of ground network services and maritime monitoring services

KSAT headquarters is in Tromsø, Norway, with sales offices in Oslo, Stockholm and Denver, Colorado. KSAT AS is part of Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace of Norwegian Kongsberg Gruppen, an international technology group, that supplies high-technology to merchant marine, defence, aerospace, offshore oil and gas industries, and renewable and utilities industries.

KSAT was established in 2002, though its roots may be traced back to 1967 when the Tromsø ground station was inaugurated.

By mid 2021 KSAT had approximately 270 employees.

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