The onboard radio complex of the search and rescue (RCR) of the new generation for the Midway Russian segment of the International Space Space System Cospass Sarcat developed specialists of the Russian Space Systems Holding (RCS, enters the state corporation “Roskosmos”). Now the equipment will not only deliver operational information about the accurate location of aircraft, maritime courts and people who endure disaster to the rescue services of the world, but also the new feedback channel will report that the signal is accepted and assistance in the way.
Designed in the RCC rescue radio complex is installed on the upgraded navigation satellites of the GLONASS system. In addition to the regular relay channel, which transmits data from the Cospas-Sarsat data from the emergency radio, the radio complex received a new feedback channel – the “acknowledgment” channel. Russian terrestrial technical means will be able to transfer confirmation on the onboard equipment to obtain a system of Cospass-Sarsat Radobui signal equipped with a GLONASS receiving navigation equipment.
The onboard radio complex Next will provide the transfer of this confirmation in the array of the standard navigation signal data, which will be accepted by an activated alarm radio. So the system will know that the buoy is “heard” the Cospas-Sarsat system, and the help is on the way. Such feedback will help support the active psycho-emotional state in disaster and will reduce the likelihood of rapid actions and destructive panic.
Unlike satellites on a low orbit, a relatively small number of which in the Cospas-Sarsat system inevitably creates “blind zones” and long-term (in some cases up to 2-3 hours) delay data transfer to the search and rescue service, the remoteness of satellites from Earth for a distance of 20 thousand kilometers and the numerous grouping allows the new average arbitral component of Cospass-Sarsat to cover and continuously receive signals from the entire land in real time.
The international satellite system of search and rescue Cospass-Sarsat is successfully helped to save human lives for almost 40 years. Since the launch of the first satellite in 1982, more than 50 thousand people are rescued throughout the planet.