The system is coordinated with Svalbard Satellite Station (SvalSat) in Longyearbyen, Norway, which combined offer downloading twice per orbit.

[2] Already at this time, there were proposals by the Norwegian Space Centre to establish an earth station at Troll, but the lack of all-year activity stranded the plans.

It specified that the Space Centre would install a Kongsberg-built radome, while the Polar Institute would provide power and undertake maintenance.

A concern was raised regarding if satellite downloading would violate the Antarctic Treaty, but the Ministry of Foreign Affairs negated.

[13] KSAT operates two polar ground stations optimized for low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites, the other being SvalSat at Longyearbyen in Svalbard, Norway.

[14] By using both stations, customers can download data twice per orbit, twenty-six times per day, with only a forty-minute maximum delay.

The facility uses interoperability and shared ground services, such as a common protocol for communication and similar design of the antennas, to increase flexibility and reduce costs and risk.

[17] It will also be one of thirty ground stations for the European Space Agency (ESA)'s satellite navigation system Galileo,[18] and is Norway's main contribution to the project.

[19] Troll is located in the eastern part of Princess Martha Coast in Queen Maud Land,[1] on the nunatak bare ground area Jutulsessen, at 1,270 meters (4,170 ft) above mean sea level.

The research station facilities are owned by the Government of Norway through the Norwegian Directorate of Public Construction and Property.