It is one thing to build ground stations, but to provide dependable end-to-end services where data is reliably delivered is something else. It is today recognized as the best-located ground station in the world for satellite control.
Strategically located on the far south tip of the South American continent, the Punta Arenas station completes the global coverage footprint operating perfectly in concert with the KSAT Antarctic Station. They complement each other and in combination, they provide a unique capacity in the southern hemisphere that is unparalleled in the market. KSAT also provides optimized locations in mid-latitude regions. These stations provide strategic locations for direct reception of satellite data to reduce data latency.
Ka-band Support: Due to requirements for larger data rates from space to ground, KSAT has invested in brand-new state-of-the-art Ka-band solutions for its customers. The Pole-to-Pole service is available and operational in Ka-band from key locations. KSAT can also provide solutions in Ka-band from optimized sites in the mid-latitude regions. We also provide advanced data processing and distribution to any place in the world. Through a close partnership with telecommunication providers, we guarantee reliable and cost-efficient solutions.
The long-term operational experience of KSAT in implementation at locations worldwide, and the ability to understand local conditions, facilitate and adapt to different environments, assures the best hosted network solutions for our customers.
Supporting launch vehicle and payload in this critical phase is an art brought to perfection by KSAT. Through an extensive set of strategically located ground stations around the globe, KSAT is capable to tailor its support map to fit every launch trajectory. The small-aperture, global ground network, where the standardized and scalable services, are catered to the specific needs of the fast growing New Space- and SmallSat industry. SvalSat, located only km south of the North Pole on Spitsbergen, is recognized as the most optimally located ground station in the world for satellite control.
The SvalSat site offers a large amount of flexibility for our customers and has a vast potential for further expansion. KSAT development and status. At the end of , that network included 22 antennas.
The company reached the milestone earlier this year when it installed a large Ka-band antenna there. By June, the network is likely to handle 30, passes because it already is exceeding 1, daily passes.
In addition to expanding capacity at existing ground station sites, KSAT is evaluating new sites. This network-centric approach increases operational flexibility and reduces cost. One month after the announcement, people from all over the world have reached out, showing their interest and wondering when and where they can get access to this information. The partners have released a video and compiled frequently asked questions giving a flavor of what is to come and how it will be accessible.
We are currently in the set up phase and busy readying everything in time for launch day. The partners have also compiled frequently asked questions in a document to give a flavor of what is to come and how it will be accessible.
This is an all-time-high for LITE, doubling the number of supports per month since January this year, and the growth seems to be continuing. The offered solution has gained popularity in the Smallsat marketplace and is currently experiencing high demand.
By the end of September that number was more than 20, The total volume is growing due to the number of customers, the number of satellites launched, as well as the number of contacts required by both new and existing customers. The sky is not the limit as they say, continues Kristian. Their other focus lies on services around the actual data.
KSAT provides near real time monitoring services, which means that data is collected and delivered as a product less than ten minutes after the capture. KSAT also provides optimized locations for satellites in polar, inclined and equatorial orbits. For its data, KSAT is running a private cloud.
We can work with Amazon cloud, Google Cloud and Microsoft, to mention a few. At this moment, we do not have any specific government using cloud data, it is all private. When piracy was at its peak, one of the challenges was the size of the boats.
Some pirates have wooden boats, which are difficult to see from a radar. But now the quality of software solutions has increased, as have the number of satellites, so these services became much more useful. The identification system merely limits the number of ships that a satellite needs to look at.
And if a tanker is going from A to B and, suddenly, it is doing something else, you would really like to look at it. And you design it only with your own requirements in mind. And suddenly, you will need a ground segment, which becomes super expensive if you have a lot of very special stuff on your satellite.
But of course, that can be fixed. We can help you with that. For example, if a customer wants to have a ground station in Australia, where we already have one in New Zealand, we will ask if they really need it to be in Australia. And we have seen that happen. The predicted number of satellites are high and there are flying satellites and predicted launches to be conservative. Stuff that moves and stuff that you want to control from space from many locations.
It needs to be faster by default. You cannot monitor a tracker once in every three days. That is why you need more satellites, smaller satellites, cheaper satellites. It is an interesting business and area. On the application side, I personally think the maritime surveillance is focused on illegal fishery and ship detection.
There, IoT will be a good market. Planet will provide high-resolution sub-5m per pixel Basemaps of the full tropics, covering over 64 developing countries, updated every month. Norway has taken a systematic approach to measuring natural capital in the key area of tropical forests, demonstrating the way to enable the transition to a sustainable economy.
This imagery archive represents a unique historical heritage at this scale to monitor the evolution of our planet over time. It is clear that a global coalition is required to make a considerable impact on the 28 million hectares of forests being cut down every year while working to protect what is left. Figure 8: Global map showing the extent of monthly Planet Basemaps to be provided through the partnership for tropical forest monitoring image credit: Planet Labs Inc.
Today KSAT communicates with satellites more than 33, times a month. Mary's Street studios to a new, state-of-the-art two-story facility that was built in an area that was formerly part of the station's parking lot. The building houses a large newsroom, numerous offices and meeting spaces, a convenience store-style breakroom for staff and a courtyard with outdoor seating as well as a grill and garden area.
Demolition began on the former KSAT studio building shortly after the station relocated; by May , that space will be transformed into a new parking lot for station employees and news vehicles. The comedy film Miss Congeniality , which was set around a beauty pageant being held in San Antonio, used KSAT live trucks and microphones with the station's mic flags in a fictional sense; though none of KSAT's actual staff appeared during the film, instead using actors playing a KSAT reporter and a news photographer in a scene in which the film's lead character, FBI agent Gracie Hart played by Sandra Bullock , is interviewed at The Alamo.
KSAT was proposed to become a charter station of digital multicast service. KSAT-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 12, on June 12, , the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 48 to VHF channel 12 for post-transition operations.
Until late , Jimmy Kimmel Live! In , weeknight co-anchor Leslie Mouton now anchor of the station's weekday morning newscast was diagnosed with breast cancer ; Mouton courageously decided to anchor the evening newscasts without a wig while she was undergoing chemotherapy treatments that resulted in her going bald.
Mouton chronicled her treatment and recovery on KSAT, earning accolades from local oncologists and cancer patients. Mouton recounted her battle with the disease in a interview on The Oprah Winfrey Show which aired on KSAT at the time , which included clips of Mouton's first anchoring appearance after she lost her hair, including the explanation she gave on-air of what she was going through at the time. On February 5, , KSAT became the second television station in the San Antonio market to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition.
First News At Four ended its run on September 5, Also coinciding with the expanded newscast, Inside Edition was reduced from two daily airings to one, as the newscast took over that timeslot; Nightline remained in its timeslot at later occupied by Jimmy Kimmel Live! However, ABC's newest affiliation contract has required all its affiliates to carry Kimmel as scheduled at p. That month, the station also added Saturday and Sunday editions of Good Morning San Antonio , in the form of one-hour blocks with the second half of the Saturday edition running two hours surrounding the weekend editions of Good Morning America.
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