High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! ORBCOMM (NASDAQ: ORBC) is a company that offers M2Mglobal asset monitoring and messaging services from its constellation of 29 LEO communications satellites orbiting at 775 km. Like its voice-centric competitors Iridium and Globalstar, it filed for Chapter 11 protection, in September, 2000. ORBCOMM issued a public offering of stock in November 2006. The company sold 9.23 million shares of common stock.