Troll Satellite Station

Troll Satellite Station (TrollSat) is KSAT’s operational commercial satellite ground station co-located with Norway’s Troll research station at Jutulsessen in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. At 72° south, it provides southern-hemisphere access to polar-orbiting spacecraft for satellite reception, control and command, including Earth-observation data services; NASA lists the site in its Near Space Network as an S/X-band complex with 7.3-metre assets, and ESA identifies the Galileo ground sensor station at Troll as hosted by Kongsberg Satellite. KSAT’s 2022 site report described the station as accessible for work only during the Antarctic summer, roughly mid-November to early March; this is a site-logistics constraint, not a public visitor programme.