GROUND SEGMENT · OPERATOR PROFILE · DATA AS OF 2026-10-27

KSAT

Active Ground Segment Private HQ: Tromsø, Norway Founded 1967

Norway-based Earth-station-as-a-service operator. Largest commercial polar-region ground network — SvalSat (78°N) sees every polar orbit, TrollSat in Antarctica completes the pair. NASA NSN, ESA and NOAA all use KSAT contact-as-a-service for LEO Earth-observation downlink.

50.7

ARI Composite

Moderate Risk

#29 of 66

Peer Rank

Manufacturing cohort

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Total Launches

No flights tracked

Private JV — not pub…

Estimated valuation

Private — reported

FINANCIAL HEALTH

50.7

ARI composite · Moderate Risk

Peer rank#29 of 66

Peer groupManufacturing

Data coverage75%

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SECTOR POSITION

Primary sectorGround Segment

Rank within sector#29 of 66

Tracked peers66

RECENT COVERAGE

Date	Source	Headline
Sep 25, 2026	Payload Space	FUSE Grows Its Space Portfolio
Sep 09, 2026	Payload Space	AnySignal Lands Spot on Apex Bus Menu
Sep 03, 2026	Via Satellite	From Ground to Orbit: KSAT Exec Details Plans for Hyper Relay Network
Aug 28, 2026	Payload Space	Launch Concerns Cast a Shadow Over SmallSat 2026
Jul 30, 2026	Payload Space	Payload Pioneers: Where Are They Now?

REGISTRY DATA

Legal nameKongsberg Satellite Services AS

OwnershipPrivate

HeadquartersTromsø, Norway

CountryNO

Founded1967

CEORolf Skatteboe

ParentKongsberg Defence and Aerospace / Space Norway (50/50 JV)

AliasesKSAT, ksat, Kongsberg Satellite Services, Kongsberg Satellite Services AS, Kongsberg Defence and Aerospace satellite services, KSAT Inc

SubsidiariesKSAT Inc (US subsidiary)

Key programsKSAT global ground network (~250 antennas at 27 sites), Svalbard Satellite Station (SvalSat), TrollSat (Antarctica), KSAT Lite

Gov customersESA, NASA, NOAA, USSF

Estimated valuationPrivate JV — not publicly disclosed

IPO statusN/A — JV of Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (50%) and Space Norway (50%)

Source: space_company_registry.json · Operator homepage → · Official KSAT services page — confirms global ground-network site list and JV ownership structure.

METHODOLOGY

Launch history and subsystem outcomes aggregate from AstraVeris's launch_events table with Wilson 95% lower bounds on success rates. ARI scores come from the 11-factor composite (/finance/methodology/). Constellation counts derive from the live CelesTrak/GCAT object catalog. Gov contracts from USAspending.gov awards; private deals from deduplicated pipeline deal extraction. Absence of a row means "not tracked" — we never fabricate. See /methodology/ for the full data model and /data-licensing/ for licensing terms.

Not investment advice. For insurance underwriting, verify against primary-source filings and operator investigation reports.