| 1982 - Company officially becomes Norsat, develops the first commercial-grade satellite receivers. |
| 1983 - Norsat breaks with industry norm and introduces a gallium arsenide low noise amplifier (LNA) instead of a silicon based LNA. |
| 1984 - Norsat develops a new series of low noise blocker (LNB) compatible satellite receivers featuring synthesized video, stereo audio, and infrared remote control. |
| 1985 - Norsat introduces synthesized receivers (JR Series) that enable internal melding of phase and frequency for a very high degree of accuracy; these receivers gain significant traction with private networks. |
| 1987 - Norsat becomes the provider of choice of Ku band private networks for business television and wins landmark deal to supply GTE Spacenet. Norsat also introduces the Microsat, an IBM PC compatible satellite communications expansion card for broadcast data networks, with optional audio/video capability. |
| 1988 - Norsat introduces external reference receivers that provide a stable reference source, by minimizing temperature drift, for very low data rate applications. Company also introduces a broadcast satellite data multiplexing network control system and a satellite delivered personal computer bulletin board service. |
