HOW IT WORKS
SPOT sends your data to Globalstar's satellite network.
OUTGOING MESSAGES
GPS Satellite System
GPS satellites provide signals. 
SPOT DEVICES
SPOT messenger’s onboard GPS chip determines your GPS location and sends your location and preselected message to communication satellites.
Globalstar Satellite
Communication satellites relay your message to specific satellite antennas around the world.
Antennas
Satellite antennas and a global network route your location and message to the appropriate network.
Messaging Services
Your location and messages are delivered according to your instructions via email, text message, or emergency notification to the search & rescue coordination center.
GPS Satellite System
GPS satellites provide signals. 
SPOT DEVICES
SPOT messenger’s onboard GPS chip determines your GPS location and sends your location and preselected message to communication satellites.
Globalstar Satellite
Communication satellites relay your message to specific satellite antennas around the world.
Antennas
Satellite antennas and a global network route your location and message to the appropriate network.
Messaging Services
Your location and messages are delivered according to your instructions via email, text message, or emergency notification to the search & rescue coordination center. INCOMING MESSAGES
Messaging Services
Antennas
Globalstar Satellite
SPOT X
Messaging Services
Antennas
Globalstar Satellite
SPOT X
With SPOT X’s new 2-way communication technology, your family and friends as well as search and rescue services can reply to or initiate a message to you from virtually anywhere in the world.