Orolia MEOSAR ground stations
France-headquartered Orolia, a Resilient Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) specialist, has successfully installed the worlds first operational Cospas-Sarsat second-generation technology on search and rescue ground stations for the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Florida and Hawaii.
These ground stations have been upgraded with Second Generation Beacon (SGB) signal processing capabilities to more accurately and quickly locate the source of distress signals.
The Cospas-Sarsat global search and rescue system has developed specifications for a Second Generation 406 MHz search and rescue beacon that uses a modern, spread spectrum signal to achieve far more accurate and robust performance. Orolia is at the forefront of these technology developments, with the NOAA Florida and Hawaii ground stations as the only operationally-ready Medium Earth Orbit Search and Rescue (MEOSAR) ground stations in the world to receive the SGB signal specification capability.
Orolia has also recently announced the launch of the world’s first Galileo enabled Personal Locator Beacon.
By Jake Frith
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