OREANDA-NEWS. July 06, 2010. Space Instrumentation R&D successfully tested its PARM-406ChS and PARM-406А emergency beacons in June.

 PARM-406ChS is intended to monitor transportation of hazardous and valuable cargo.  During its acceptance tests, the beacon displayed faultless operations through KOSPAS-SARSAT, providing geographical coordinates of the object under test in 2 min.

Joint training of Russian and Mongolian rescue teams took place in late June. The training also demonstrated proper operations of PARM-406А emergency beacon. The most interesting application of the beacon was verified in a simulated aircraft accident. The PARM positioned the emergency site in Emergency mode through KOSPAS-SARSAT in a couple of minutes, so the teams could reach the place defined in minimum time.