Kongsberg Spacetec
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| Kongsberg Spacetec AS | |
|---|---|
| Type | Private |
| Founded | 1984 |
| Headquarters | Tromsø, Norway |
| Area served | Global |
| Key people | Bjørn Arne Kanck (President) |
| Industry | Space |
| Parent | Kongsberg Gruppen |
| Website | http://www.spacetec.no |
Kongsberg Spacetec is a company of Kongsberg Gruppen (KOG) in Norway. The company is a supplier of satellite ground stations and systems for SAR and optical sensors.
The company has made hardware and software for satellite ground stations since 1984. Here are some of the installations [1]. Picture[2] from an installation at Svalbard.
Kongsberg Spacetec is co-located with Kongsberg Satellite Services [3], the operator of three ground stations: Tromsø Satellite Station, Svalbard Satellite Station and Troll Satellite Station, co-located with Troll research station.
Many employees are graduated from University of Tromsø[4]
History (brief)
- 1920 - Space activities started in Tromsø
- 1984 - Spacetec established
- 1987 - Built the European ERS-1/2 ground segment
- 1994 - Fully owned by the Kongsberg Group/KDA
Contents |
[edit] Supplier to/of
- European Space Agency (ESA)[5]
- EUMETSAT[6]
- RADARSAT-2 processor (MDA)[7]
- Envisat ASAR processor [8]
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center[9][10]
- Norwegian Meteorological Institute [11]
- Planck satellite - Low Frequency Instrument[12]
- UK Met Office
- KSAT[13][14]
- GlobICE project[15]
- Chinese Academy of Science[16]
- Norwegian Computing Center[17]
- KNMI[18]
- NORUT IT[19]
- The ESA/ESRIN ATSR Browse Generation System (ABS)[20]
- ICEMON[21]
- EuroClim[22]
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.spacetec.no/docs/installations
- ^ Kongsberg Spacetec Svalbard sur Flickr : partage de photos !
- ^ Home - Kongsberg Satellite Services
- ^ Plasmalab
- ^ Data User Element
- ^ News - Kongsberg Gruppen
- ^ Norway and Canada Continue Earth Observation Co-operation with Radarsat-2 Program | Earth Today
- ^ http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=/iel5/7695/21051/00978237.pdf
- ^ Eomag!: Important NASA contract awarded Kongsberg Spacetec
- ^ EOS Operations Systems: Planned and Proposed Changes to Reduce Operations Costs
- ^ http://retro.met.no/english/r_and_d_activities/publications/2004/16_2004/report_16_2004.pdf
- ^ NFR-prosjekter
- ^ Home - Kongsberg Satellite Services
- ^ Eomag!: Kongsberg Spacetec news
- ^ Data User Element
- ^ Kongsberg Spacetec AS wins satellite ground station system contract in China. | Nordic Business Report (February, 2003)
- ^ NR - Norwegian Computing Center
- ^ KNMI HDF5 Data Format Specification, v3.5
- ^ Monitoring the Arctic Sea Ice
- ^ The ESA/ESRIN ATSR Browse Generation System (ABS)
- ^ ICEMON project page at NERSC
- ^ http://publications.nr.no/paper-igarss2002-EuroClim.pdf
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