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SARSAT

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SARSATSearch And Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking


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The USSR launched some unmanned spacecraft for communications, meteorology and remote sensing, including a satellite to operate as part of the COSPAS/ SARSAT search and rescue satellite system.
GOES-7 also carries an experiment thatNOAA hopes will lead to faster alerts via the SARSAT (Search And Rescue Satellite) system, which for more than four years has been monitoring emergency signals from distressed ships and aircraft.
In the 20 years since SARSAT, the satellite-based 406 MHz EPIRB search and rescue system was launched in 1982, 14,471 people worldwide, including 4,440 in the U.
 
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