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7.8 Cospas-Sarsat system
Cospas-Sarsat is a system that is created to detect and locate emergency
beacons activated by aircrafts, ships and people in remote areas.
The system was introduced in 1982 as a worldwide search and rescue
system with the help of satellites covering the earth’s surface. Since the
introduction of the system tens of thousands persons have been rescued.
The system consists of:
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Satellites in low-altitude earth orbit (LEOSAR), geostationary
orbit (GEOSAR) and medium latitude earth orbit (MEOSAR),
that process and/or relay signals transmitted by beacons.
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Local user terminals (LUT) that receives and processes the
signals from the satellites.
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Mission control centers (MCC) that distributes the signals to
the appropriate search and rescue authorities.
Each EPIRB is programmed with its own unique code in the system.
Therefore, it is important that the ships data that was given to the dealer
where the EPIRB was obtained is correct. It is also important that your
EPIRB is registered in the database for the applicable country. This
database is normally located in the same country as the ship is registered.