Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace
Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (KDA), one of two operating companies of Kongsberg Gruppen (KOG), is a supplier of defence and space related systems and products, mainly anti-ship missiles, command and weapons control systems, and communications systems.Today the company is probably best known abroad for its development / industrialisation and production of the first passive-IR homing anti-ship missile of the western world, the Penguin, starting delivery in the early 1970s (when KDA was part of KOG's predecessor Kongsberg VÃÂÃÂ¥penfabrikk). Space related activities is conducted within KDA itself in addition to its subsidiaries Kongsberg Spacetec (wholly owned) and Kongsberg Satellite Services (50% owned by KDA, 50% by the Norwegian Space Centre). Notable space related products from KDA are the Booster Attachment and Release Mechanisms for ESA's Ariane 5.