KSAT provides NRT Satellite Imagery Over the Arctic Ocean Customer Challenge Until recently, any journey in the ice-infested waters of the Arctic Ocean was a journey into the unknown, with no up-to-date, detailed map of the ice conditions readily available in such a remote region of the world. Now, Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) provides Near Real Time (NRT) satellite imagery of the Arctic Ocean from the European Space Agency satellite, Envisat, and the Canadian Radarsat-1 satellite, to any International Polar Year (IPY) expedition in the Arctic Ocean. Solution Achieved Users will be able to connect to KSAT in Tromsø using an Iridium phone to access the latest radar satellite image of the sea ice conditions immediately ahead of them. The transmission of detailed satellite images over

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