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Overview of the International Satellite-Based COSPAS-SARSAT System

2019; Springer Science+Business Media; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-981-13-5937-8_7

1865-0937

Wei Wang, Shuming Wang,

Satellite Communication Systems

In order to provide emergency distress altering capacity from an aircraft, vessel or individual in distress, the COSPAS-SARSAT (COSPAS is an acronym for the Russian words “Cosmicheskaya Sistema Poiska Avariynyh Sudov,” which translates to “space system for the search of vessels in distress”; SARSAT is an acronym for search and rescue satellite-Aided tracking) international satellite system has been operational for many years. In this paper, we give a detailed description of the system, looking at beacons, the space segment, and the ground segment; we also compare the system performance by using first generation and second generation of 406 MHz beacons, respectively.