What's up at Kongsberg Discovery

Smashing AUV records

Kongsberg Discovery is excited to announce another successful milestone reached in the development of HUGIN Endurance following a record setting multi-week fully autonomous mission. After receiving a final navigation update from a pre-deployed transponder 10 hours into the dive, the 8-ton, 40 ft, Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) operated completely independent of all human interaction and with no external navigation aiding for the duration of the sortie. This mission was conducted at depths ranging from 50m to 3400m and met the advertised 1,200 nautical mile range. Most impressive of all, was that HUGIN Endurance returned with a position error of approximately 0.02% of total distance traveled!

EK80 upgrade

Ocean Science specialist Kongsberg Discovery is strengthening its industry-leading EK80 echo-sounder product family with unprecedented wide-band low-frequency capability that will enable customers across Governments, Academia, and Industry to gain a much more detailed picture of the ocean environment than has previously been possible, amid an increasing focus on sustainable management of the oceans.  

AUV Demonstrations

Kongsberg Discovery successfully completed in-water demonstrations of the HUGIN Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) as part of the commercial evaluation of Large Diameter Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (LDUUV) systems by the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and the U.S. Navy.

Mission accomplished for the world's first HUGIN Endurance

Kongsberg Discovery is pleased to announce that the first production system of our revolutionary long-range Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) HUGIN Endurance has completed factory acceptance testing.

Royal support for One Ocean Expedition

His Royal Highness Crown Prince Haakon of Norway has agreed to become a goodwill ambassador for Statsraad Lehmkuhl's next major expedition, the One Ocean Expedition 2025-2026.

Argeo

Ocean surveying and inspection specialist Argeo Subsea, CSI Nordics and Kongsberg Discovery have signed a three-party Certificate of Delivery and Acceptance for a new HUGIN Superior AUV. The agreement, confirmed at Oceanology International in London, supports Argeo’s ambitious fleet expansion plans, as the firm looks to build the world’s most advanced AUV fleet, with seven high specification units. Argeo already has one HUGIN Superior in service.  CSI Nordics, a subsidiary of CSI Leasing, one of the largest independent equipment leasing in the world, will purchase the unit from Kongsberg Discovery, entering into a long-term leasing agreement with Argeo.

Corcovado

Corcovado Geosub Ltda today signed a multimillion-dollar contract with Kongsberg Discovery for advanced seabed monitoring equipment.

Unique Group

Unique Group, global innovators in subsea technologies and engineering, today signed a contract with Kongsberg Discovery for USD 1.7million of advanced seabed mapping and compact acoustic positioning technology for their APAC region.

Hipos

Kongsberg Discovery has responded to market demand with an innovative new software solution to enable remote operations of HiPAP and µPAP SSBL acoustic positioning systems, for both crewed and uncrewed survey vessels.

Seapath385

Kongsberg Discovery is celebrating the 30th anniversary of its inertial navigation product portfolio with the release of Seapath® 385, a system combining new hardware and advanced navigation algorithms to unlock optimal precision for hydrographic surveying.

ADCP

Kongsberg Discovery, a world leader in oceanographic instrumentation, is looking to spearhead the evolution of the ADCP market with a new product innovation that mixes flexibility, simplicity, and high-resolution performance. The CP333, launched today at Oceanology International, delivers precise currents and DVL (motion) measurements in challenging, dynamic environments such as coastal waters and around ocean wind installations.

EMSBP

Norwegian ocean science technology provider introduces EM®SBP software system offering sub-bottom profiling capability for Kongsberg's deep-water multi beam echo sounder (MBES) systems EM 124 and EM 304, without the need for additional hardware.