Galileo infographic: 'Saving lives from space'

Saving lives from space: Below the navigation antenna is a smaller hexagonal-shaped antenna incorporating six protruding elements. This is Galileo’s Search and Rescue antenna – part of the international Cospas-Sarsat programme. It picks up SOS signals from emergency beacons down on the ground and relays them on to a ground station for forwarding to local emergency services – contributing to the saving of more than 2000 lives annually. Galileo’s Search and Rescue payload can detect activated beacons in less than five minutes, pinning down their location to within one or two kilometres, additionally performing ‘return link’ messaging – replying to the beacon to inform those in peril that help is on the way.

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