Iridium satellite

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Iridium Communications may be frustrated in its attempts to get the U.S. Defense Department to agree to place payloads on Iridium’s next generation of 66 low-orbiting satellites, but the company is pursuing multiple prospective customers for the space it is reserving on each satellite for third-party payloads, Iridium officials said.

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