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KSAT operates 270-plus antennas across 26 ground station locations, including polar sites in Svalbard and Antarctica, serving space agencies, defense, and commercial customers.
ACTIVEKSAT (Kongsberg Satellite Services) is the world's largest commercial ground station network operator, with 270+ antennas across 26 ground station locations including unique polar sites in Svalbard and Antarctica. The company provides satellite ground segment services to space agencies, defense customers, and commercial satellite operators.
KSAT provides ground segment services for all orbit types including LEO, MEO, and GEO. Its Svalbard and TrollSat (Antarctica) ground stations provide unparalleled polar coverage, making KSAT the preferred ground segment partner for Earth observation missions requiring rapid data downlink. The company also offers KSATlite, a network of small antennas optimized for smallsat and NewSpace operators.
Rank 25 of 147 ranked companies
4 of 6 inputs measured · High confidence · 100% of applicable weight backed by data
Not measured: Reported revenue
Not measured: Open-role change (90 days)
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Global network of 270+ antennas at 26 locations providing TT&C, data downlink, and mission support for satellite operators.
Cost-effective network of small antennas optimized for NewSpace and smallsat operators needing scalable ground support.
| Svalbard Ground Station | ground-station | Longyearbyen, Norway |
| TrollSat Antarctica | ground-station | Antarctica |
| KSAT HQ | headquarters | Tromso, Norway |
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Compiled Oct 7, 2026 from 2 public records. Every figure links the record it comes from.
Space federal awards
1 award, $1.3M obligated
Awards with activity since Oct 1, 2018, as searched Sep 16, 2026. Awarded Jan 28, 2025 to Jan 28, 2025; most from NASA (1 award)
Counts awards the government's own product code or programme title marks as space work, or the space research industry code; the satellite-telecoms industry code counts only together with a space agency, office or a space word in the award's own description. Obligated dollars, not ceilings; umbrella contracts (IDVs) are left out because their orders are counted one by one. Amounts as USAspending reported them on Sep 16, 2026.
Source: USAspending.gov recipient profile (all awards, not only space)
Latest award Jan 28, 2025
Latest space award
$1.3M from NASA
NEAR SPACE NETWORK (NSN) SERVICES (SUBCATEGORIES 1.1 (EARTH PROXIMITY DIRECT TO EARTH (DTE)) AND 1.2 (GEO TO CIS-LUNAR DTE))
Source: USAspending.gov award record
Awarded Jan 28, 2025
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
1 space award, $1.3M obligated
USAspending.gov award record, Jan 28, 2025
APA
SpaceNexus. (2026, October 7). KSAT: Company dossier [Data set]. Retrieved October 7, 2026, from https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/ksat
Chicago
SpaceNexus. "KSAT: Company dossier." Data as of October 7, 2026. Accessed October 7, 2026. https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/ksat.
BibTeX
@misc{spacenexus_ksat_2026,
author = {{SpaceNexus}},
title = {{KSAT}: Company dossier},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
howpublished = {\url{https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/ksat}},
url = {https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/ksat},
urldate = {2026-10-07},
note = {Data as of 2026-10-07; each fact links its primary source}
}