Hint - Extreme Sports

Search and rescue satellites are often very useful for people in remote areas doing extreme things. In order for a satellite to calculate a location of an individual in distress, there must be a series of several satellites. The satellites use mathematical calculations called trigonometry.

If you designed a satellite that could calculate someone's location from space based on a distress signal emitted from a locator device, it would provide people with a much greater chance of surviving an accident. For people who are out on a small boat in the middle of the ocean, or on the top of a mountain, carrying a small locator is very feasible.

You would have to design a locator that you could give or sell to people. That locator would have to emit a signal that the satellites could detect. The locator would also have to have a system that would activate it if someone was in distress because of a crash, for example. How would your satellite receive the signal? How would your locator be activated?

Once you've decided how your satellite is going to solve this problem, write a description of what your satellite will do in your notebook. When you're finished, click on "continue".
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