# Svalbard

*Ground station*

Svalbard Satellite Station (SvalSat), Platåberget

| | |
| --- | --- |
| Where it is | 78.2300° N, 15.3900° E |
| State | NO |
| What is done there | satellite ground station |
| Still working | yes |

Test ranges, observatories and ground stations are a hand-picked list kept in this project rather than a published catalogue: no catalogue answers which of the world's thousands of observing sites belong on a map of it. The article below is what lets the choice be argued with.

## What it is

Svalbard Satellite Station (Norwegian: Svalbard satellittstasjon) or SvalSat is a satellite ground station located on Platåberget near Longyearbyen in Svalbard, Norway. Opened in 1997, it is operated by Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT), a joint venture between Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace and the Norwegian Space Centre (NSC).

## Elsewhere

- This place on the live map: https://www.orbitalmap.space/?at=78.23,15.39
- The article this row is vouched by: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Satellite_Station
- Every object: https://www.orbitalmap.space/o/
- What this site is and what it reads: https://www.orbitalmap.space/llms.txt

## Where this came from

Compiled 2026-09-17. Selected by hand for this project. Description from Wikipedia (en). Description: CC BY-SA 4.0.