PARIS — Satellite hardware builder Com Dev of Canada, having been excluded from providing search-and-rescue payloads for Europe’s Galileo navigation satellite constellation for security reasons, has set its sights on the U.S. GPS 3 program for the same work, Com Dev Chief Executive John Keating said April 7.

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Peter B. de Selding was the Paris Bureau Chief for SpaceNews.