Satellite machine-to-machine messaging service provider Orbcomm reported Nov. 8 a huge and unexpected increase.in revenue from its maritime vessel satellite-monitoring service and said this revenue source could get five times bigger when the company's second-generation satellites are in orbit.The news on Orbcomm's Automatic Identification Service (AIS) revenue for maritime surveillance came just two Weeks before the 20 nation European Space Agency (ESA) will decide whether to spend more than $100 million to build and launch its own AIS satellite.
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