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GROUND SEGMENT · OPERATOR PROFILE · DATA AS OF 2026-06-09

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.

50.2
ARI Composite
Moderate Risk
#13 of 17
Peer Rank
Manufacturing cohort
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Total Launches
No flights tracked
Private JV — not pub…
Estimated valuation
Private — reported

FINANCIAL HEALTH

50.2
ARI composite · Moderate Risk
Peer rank#13 of 17
Peer groupManufacturing
Data coverage75%
Full finance profile →

SECTOR POSITION

Primary sectorGround Segment
Rank within sector#13 of 17
Tracked peers17

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.

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