Commercial search and rescue missions to retrieve and repair valuable satellites may become commonplace in the twenty-first century. Telecommunications companies and other businesses typically spend between $50 million and $300 million to manufacture...

Search, often by dog-handler teams, for individuals who are missing and may need to be rescued; frequently includes the possibility the missing individuals are...

Search and rescue (acronym SAR) is an operation mounted by emergency services, often well-trained volunteers, to find someone believed to be in distress, lost, sick or injured either in a remote or difficult to access area, such as mountains, desert or...

WITH ITS STRATEGY for Iraq on the verge of unraveling, the Bush administration has belatedly embraced an idea it should have accepted long ago: that a political transition conducted by the United Nations is more likely to be accepted by Iraqis than one imposed...

Military High-technology beacons and positioning devices speed aid to stranded fliers. An advanced personnel-location and communications system will allow U.S. and allied air forces to more easily locate downed pilots and crews. The technology consists of a warfighter-worn personal transceiver with a...

At first Megan Minor thought the warnings her ship was sinking were just another drill, until she looked toward the engine room and saw water coming up the stairs.Thanks to rapid response based on satellite signals, she and the crew of the Jacob Alan were...

A 3-year-old girl found alive in the upside-down wreckage of an airplane survived because she was strapped in a car seat, rescuers said. They said they knew she was OK when she cried for her teddy bear.Sunday's crash killed Kate Williams' pilot-grandfather, Allen D. Williams,...