GROUND SEGMENT · OPERATOR PROFILE · DATA AS OF 2026-09-11

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 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.