WorldSpace Inc.’s AfriSpace subsidiary wants to complete a partly built satellite to provide digital radio broadcasting in Europe but is running into opposition from a European start-up claiming it wants to do the same thing.

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Peter B. de Selding was the Paris bureau chief for SpaceNews.