Search and Rescue satellite system upgraded

Important upgrades to New Zealand’s search and rescue satellite Earth Station are under way to improve the accuracy and response times of emergency beacons across 30 million square kilometres of the south-west Pacific down to the South Pole.

The changes will ensure better responses when distress beacons are activated anywhere on land, sea or air in New Zealand’s huge search and rescue region which covers 30 million square kilometres of the south-west Pacific, from near the equator to the South Pole, and from halfway to Australia and halfway to Chile.

The RCCNZ responds to about 1200 search and rescue incidents each year and picks up and transmits data from PLBs – personal locator beacons, EPIRBs – emergency position indicating radio beacons (from ships), and ELTs – emergency location transmitters (from aircraft).

Read the full article on th4e stuff.co.nz website: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300676566/this-paddock-full-of-green-spheres-is-a-matter-of-life-and-death

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