Conventionally, when a station network operator needs to extend the coverage of his network he builds a new station. And in that case the coverage extension corresponds to the coverage provided by the new station. Depending on the network mission profile, this coverage increase could be sufficient or not. In the field of TT&C or payload data reception activities for LEO satellites, the benefit of the additional new station may be limited in terms of contact opportunities, depending on the choice of the new antenna location.In the beginning of the 21st century CNES identified new needs regarding the coverage of the polar region for X band data reception capability and of capability of satellite control in S band. These needs were related to future earth observation missions. On the one hand, the workload analysis performed at that time showed that the use of one polar station was not sufficient because of the conflict between the missions. And on the other hand the station work load was not sufficient to justify building a second antenna.At the same time, SSC was looking to establish a second polar station to complement the Esrange Space Center in Kiruna, Sweden and thereby optimize the ground station coverage of every orbit of sun synchronous (SSO) LEO satellite missions, as well as increasing redundancy and capacity. In addition, by adding a second polar station in a different geographical location SSC would be able to reduce the risk of RF interference, which is increasing in the northern artic region. SSC and CNES were able to identify the location of Inuvik, Canada as an optimal location for a second polar station to complement the Esrange Space Center in Kiruna, Sweden, at the same latitude and with almost 180° separation in longitude.The founding of the Inuvik Satellite Station Facility (ISSF) at Inuvik, Canada in 2010 became a unique private-public undertaking between SSC and two space agencies (CNES and DLR) to establish a satellite station capable to provide strategic TT&C and data reception capabilities from a CNES-SSC antenna and a DLR antenna, to a variety of satellite missions, with coordination and backup support between the three parties. As the other part of the station sharing agreement, SSC and CNES also established an additional antenna system at the Esrange Space Center in Kiruna, Sweden, and CNES and SSC set up a scheme for sharing the load and operations of both the Inuvik and Kiruna antennas. This multi-site, public-private partnership between CNES and SSC has evolved since the last presentation at the 2012 SpaceOps, and the evolution of its unique capabilities and features is the subject of this paper.The two sites are operated together, as one site (often referred to as « Kinuvik »), with the load shared seamlessly. This combination forms a unique asset that can command and download significant payload data volumes on every orbit. The ideal geometry and separation between Kiruna and Inuvik gives the optimal solution to download more data by avoiding overlapping coverage. This solution all...