NASA Search and Rescue Partners With Australian Space Research Center, SmartSat CRC.
SmartSat Cooperative Research Center (CRC) will propose new designs for the 406 MHz signal sent by beacons through the Cospas-Sarsat network.
These new designs will further modernize second-generation beacons, which take advantage of encoding techniques not available when the Cospas-Sarsat network was developed in the 1970s.
SmartSat CRC will also work on systems that offer enhanced services to users, emergency management professionals and first responders.
Future phases of the SmartSat CRC collaboration could support exploration initiatives like the Artemis missions, which will return humans to the Moon for the first time since Apollo.
NASA will equip Artemis astronauts with second-generation beacons for use if needed for egress from capsule after splashdown or a launch abort scenario.
The Search and Rescue team is working to extend beacon services to the lunar surface with the LunaNet communications and navigation architecture.
Read more here:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-search-and-rescue-partners-with-australian-space-research-center-smartsat-crc