Orbcomm launched commercial service for its first six next-generation...

Orbcomm launched commercial service for its first six next-generation OG2 satellites. The satellites are processing more than 20 percent of the network’s machine-to-machine traffic, Orbcomm said Monday in a news release (http://bit.ly/1qWQOd1). Orbcomm is now collecting more than 13 million Automatic Identification System messages “from more than 130,000 unique vessels per day,” it said. The satellites are fully backwards compatible with Orbcomm’s existing OG1 network, it said.