ORBCOMM is an American company and a global provider of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, offering services like satellite data communication for tracking and monitoring assets. They operate a global network of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites and ground infrastructure. ORBCOMM serves various industries, including transportation, maritime, heavy equipment, and government, with partners and customers like Caterpillar, John Deere, and S&P Global.
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Orbcomm provides AIS data through a network of 13 satellites, some owned and some operated through partners.
The first of Orbcomm’s two AAC Clyde AIS cubesats is projected to launch in December and the second is projected to launch between the beginning of April and the end of June.
ÅAC Clyde received a contract from Orbcomm of Rochelle Park, New Jersey to build and operate two cubesats for Automatic Identification System ship-tracking.
Clyde Space, a subsidiary of ÅAC Microtec, plans to build and begin operating two cubesats equipped with Automatic Identification System receivers for Orbcomm in 2020.
Clyde Space partnered with Orbcomm to build and launch two Automatic Identification System-enabled cubesats in 2020 under a project worth nearly $6,000,000 over five years.
The contract between ÅAC Microtec’s Clyde Space and Orbcomm is valued at 54 million Swedish Krona ($5,900,000).
More than 90 percent of Orbcomm’s communications traffic is carried by its OG2 satellites launched in 2014 and 2015.
Sierra Nevada Corporation lacks experience building large numbers of geostationary-orbit (GEO) satellite buses and instead has experience building smaller LEO satellites including the second-generation Orbcomm constellation.