ORBCOMM'S NETWORK Control Centre in Dulles Virgina, received messages on 25 July which had been transmitted to a passing Orbcomm satellite by a prototype subscriber communicator near the Dead Sea, Israel.
The intercontinental transmission and receipt of the store-and-forward Globalgram messages proves the Orbital Sciences subsidiary's ability to serve remote land and ocean regions which are outside the coverage of Orbcomm's ground-based networks.
Source: Flight International