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Cospas-Sarsat has moved to Montreal
Nov 01 2005 - 12:00
Cospas-Sarsat is a satellite system designed to provide distress alert and location data to assist search and rescue (SAR) operations, using spacecraft and ground facilities to detect and locate the signals of distress beacons operating on 406 Megahertz (MHz) or 121.5 MHz. The position of the distress and other related information is forwarded to the appropriate Search and Rescue Point of Contact (SPOC) through the Cospas-Sarsat Mission Control Center (MCC) network. The goal of the System is to support all organizations in the world with responsibility for SAR operations, whether at sea, in the air or on land.
Operational use of Cospas-Sarsat by SAR agencies started with the crash of a light aircraft in Canada, in which three people were rescued (September 10, 1982). Since then, the System has been used for thousands of SAR events and has been instrumental in the rescue of over 17,000 lives worldwide.
www.cospas-sarsat.org
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