Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
VesselSat-2 is a Luxembourgian microsatellite built and owned by LuxSpace and operated by Orbcomm under lease. It carries a receiver for Automatic Identification System signals used to track ships at sea. VesselSat-2 is the second of two VesselSat spacecraft which were built by LuxSpace for Orbcomm as replacements for the AIS capabilities of the failed Orbcomm-QL spacecraft.VesselSat-2 was launched as a secondary payload on a Long March 4B carrier rocket which was carrying Ziyuan 3.