Yaroslavl Radio Plant: Emergency Rescue Radio Stations R-Series

2023: Launch into mass production of an emergency rescue radio station R-855S

JSC Yaroslavl Radio Plant"" (YARZ, part of the holding "Russian space systems State Corporation" Roskosmos") has completed international certification satellite COSPAS-SARSAT search and rescue system and is launching into mass production an emergency rescue radio station R-855S. This was reported to the RKS on September 6, 2023.

The main feature of the rescue radio is the built-in navigation receiver of domestic production. Thanks to the receiver, the radio R-855S provides accurate transmission in the alarm message of the current coordinates of the user up to meters.

The device is designed to transmit emergency signals to aircraft and helicopter crews in emergency situations.

The high accuracy of transmitting the coordinates of the radio station is our great achievement, given the fact that the radio stations of previous generations had an accuracy of plus or minus five kilometers. Upon arrival at the scene, search and rescue services had to "search" the user in distress. Now rescue services can go exactly to the point where the distress signal came from, shortening the search time. The launch of serial production of radio stations will increase the effectiveness of search and rescue operations and help save thousands of human lives, said the general director of the Yaroslavl Radio Plant Alexander Sashov.

On the Russian side, the international program COSPAS-SARSAT also involves the competencies and technologies of Roscosmos enterprises for the development and production of satellites (JSC RESHETNEV, JSC VNIIEM Corporation, JSC NPO Lavochkin), orbital systems and ground equipment (JSC NII Space Instrumentation), as well as FSUE Morsvyazsputnik as an operator of the ground segment of the COSPAS-SARSAT system IN Russia.

Since the launch of the first COSPAS-SARSAT satellite with RKS search and rescue equipment in 1982, more than fifty thousand people have been rescued around the world.