Company profile

Our History

Musson Marine Ltd was founded in year 2001.

Its objective was to apply ready researches and to develop modern efficient and useful radio equipment. We developed and started serial production of a range of maritime safety equipment: EPIRB, RADAR-SART, SART, ELT and accessories: hydrostatic release unit etc.

Since that time our company has passed a long way and acquired a great experience in this domain. We have extended our professional standards and enriched our groundwork.

For the moment our staff is 24 persons, which are 15 qualified engineers and two of them are PhDs in Technical Sciences. Our company is certified in accordance with the ISO 9001-2012 quality requirements.

Since 2002 the company represents products on the international market and now Musson Marine Ltd is the world’s leading manufacturer of the full range of GMDSS test equipment.

Actually Musson Marine is the Research and Production Company and in this area we efficiently develop 4 main directions, which are:

• RF Design
• Maritime GMDSS Testers
• Avionics Testers
• Custom OEM products for maritime and avionics fields

RF Design

Applying our experience to RF design and manufacturing, we offer PCB engineering and development services to companies within such various industries as telecom, commercial, industrial, aerospace and military. Our engineering services include design and manufacturing in range from product concept and PCB design to production, assembly, and testing.

Engineer team has great technical knowledge in communication technologies, chipsets architectures, memory interfaces, reference designs, and evaluation boards.

We cover all range of services to offer complete development cycle starting from specification design and prototyping to ready samples and testing.

Test equipment

Musson Marine Ltd successfully manufactures and sells professional test devices for validation and maintain of GMDSS equipment. Our test instruments are designed to provide the most efficient checking of marine radio equipment, such as AIS, EPIRB, PLB, VHF, MF/HF radio stations with DSC, NAVTEX and MOB (Man over Board) devices.

The range of our Testers:

• AIS Tester M1
• 406MHz SARSAT BEACON Tester
• EPIRB Tester 406 Mini w/ Wi-Fi
• GMDSS Tester MRTS-7M
• ELT Tester
• ELT Tester Mini w/ Wi-Fi

Our newest products:

• GMDSS Tester MRTS-7M
• EPIRB Tester Mini w/ Wi-Fi
• ELT Tester Mini w/ Wi-Fi
• Sarsat Beacon Monitor 406
• Galileo Reference Beacon Generator BG-105
• New SART Tester is under design and construction

Custom solutions

According to client’s needs our engineer team can turn into life any customer ideas and can design an OEM product such as any COSPAS-SARSAT system solutions and others. We are ready to design solution under your specification and custom orders to suit your needs. We have ready 3 channel small PCB - 406MHz, 121.5MHz and AIS-SART that can be integrated in any product.

Namely we already have:

• COSPAS-SARSAT EPIRB OEM PCB is ready OEM solution to be used in your case under your brand.
• Completely new AIS-SART OEM PCB that can be integrated in any commercial GMDSS product.
• Personal beacon locator PCB designed to be integrated in any safety maritime PLB solution.

Founding on our 20-years experience we can guarantee to our clients accurate, modern and reliable solutions for any requested target.

History points

2000 – Musson Marine company foundation.

2000 – development of new portable tester for COSPAS-SARSAT radio beacons.

2001 – developemnt, certification and serial production of EPIRB М-406.

2002 – has been developed a new SART tester for an annual calibration procedure for search and rescue radar transponders of any manufacturer according to the IMO resolutions.

2002 – first sale of the GMDSS test equipment set to the USA customers.

2002-2003 - main company activity is developing, manufacturing and sales of the GMDSS marine test equipment and ARB-M EPIRB. Design of new MP-406 EPIRB.

2004 – EPIRB MP-406 type approval certification.

2004-2006 - Musson Marine company developedand certified ELT S и ELT AF equipment by contract with JSC Navionika, Kiev. ELT AF wasn’t certified die to financing withhold in 2005-2008.

2005 – COSPAS-SARSAT receiver upgrading and new BEACON tester 406-02 model developing. Developing of the new MRTS -7 GMDSS tester with DSC function test (for marine radio communication, also Navtex receivers testing ability is supported).

2007 – participation in developing and COSPAS-SARSAT certification of PLB for (Yaroslavl Radio Plant) for Russia force of arms purpose.

2008 – New AIS tester (A and B class) developing for annual checks for compliance with the requirements SOLAS и IMO.

2009 - new AIS-SART developing according to the IMO requirements (codename AIS-SART Musson – 505) and replacement of 9 GHz SART – Musson-502 by developing new model RADAR – SART Course.

2010 - development of HRU G5

2011 - development of new 406MHz BEACON Monitor under special order - cospas-sarsat beacons monitoring tool

2012 - modification of AIS Tester. Increased production due to higher demand.

2013 - development and production of beacon generator under special order - cospas-sarsat beacon simulator

2014 - development of new AIS-SART Musson 502A

2015 - Musson Marine Ltd was acquired by Aeromarine SRT