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• The United States is the largest user of Cospas-Sarsat.
• Cospas-Sarsat has received many honors for its humanitarian work.
• During this period the COSPAS / SARSAT satellites passed at least once.
• Cospas-Sarsat does not make or sell beacons.
• The satellite also relays COSPAS / SARSAT signals and Planet-S System data.
• The Cospas-Sarsat LEOSAR system was made possible by trilaterate the position of the beacon.
• The Icelandic Coast Guard ( JRCC ICELAND ) is the Cospas-Sarsat SAR Point of Contact.
• TSS acts as a local user terminal for the Cospas-Sarsat system used for search and rescue.
• As of current, the PMCC is a recognized and major facility of the International COSPAS-SARSAT Program.
• It now promotes the superior Cospas-Sarsat system, and no longer services emergency beacons on maritime VHF frequencies.
• For satellite reception of alerts by Cospas-Sarsat the beacon must be a model that transmits at 406 MHz.
• Cospas-Sarsat is an international organization that has been a model of international cooperation, even during the Cold War.
• Cospas-Sarsat began tracking the two original types of distress beacons, EPIRBs and ELTs, in September, 1982.
• Cospas-Sarsat only monitors for alerts from distress beacons that transmit on 406 MHz ( so-called 406 beacons ).
• In 2014 and 2015 ( the last year for which statistics have been compiled ), Cospas-Sarsat assistance included the following:
• More information about the switch to 406 is available on Cospas-Sarsat's 121.5 / 243 Phase-Out page.
• The first system satellite,  COSPAS-1 ( Kosmos 1383 ), was launched from Plesetsk Cosmodrome on June 29, 1982.
• In addition, the GLONASS K2 is installed with equipment that will provide functionality for the COSPAS-SARSAT international search and rescue system.
• The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said its satellites, along with Russia's Cospas satellites, form an international search and rescue system.
• Users are required to register the code with the Cospas-Sarsat, allowing inquiries to be made when a distress signal is picked up.