October '13 version of "Introduction to the COSPAS-SARSAT System (C/S G.003)" released by COPAS-SARSAT Secretariat in Montreal, Quebec (Canada)

The COPAS-SARSAT Secretariat in Montreal, Quebec (Canada) has released a new October 2013 version of Introduction to the COSPAS-SARSAT System (C/S G.003). Download Issue No. 6, Revision 1 here.

COPAS*-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). The position of the distress and other related information is forwarded by the responsible COPAS-SARSAT Mission Control Centre (MCC) to the appropriate national SAR authorities. Its objective is to support all organisations in the world with responsibility for Search and Rescue (SAR) operations, whether at sea, in the air, or on land.

*COPAS is the acronym for Cosmicheskaya Sistyema Poiska Avariynich Sudov, which is Russian for Space System for the Search of Vessels in Distress
**SARSAT is the acronym for Search and Rescue Satellite-Aided Tracking

The COPAS-SARSAT System.