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Cospas-Sarsat

The signal from a distress beacon (1) is intercepted by a MEOSAR transceiver embedded in a navigation satellite (2) and transmitted to a ground station (3); the signal is then forwarded to a mission control center (4) and then to a rescue-response center (5) which coordinates the rescue (6)
Electronics and Navigation

Medium-altitude Earth Orbit Search and Rescue System Comes on Stream

For more than 30 years the Cospas-Sarsat system has been the mainstay of modern search and rescue, with many thousands of people rescued thanks to the orbiting satellites that monitor distress signals broadcast on the 406MHz band from EPIRBs and personal locator beacons. The ...read more