PRAGUE, Czech Republic — Hisdesat of Spain, which sells commercial X-band satellite capacity to military and civil government agencies, has taken a 27 percent equity stake in exactEarth Ltd., a division of Com Dev of Canada that is developing a global space-based maritime vessel-tracking system, Hisdesat and Com Dev announced Sept. 30.

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