The Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO) launched India’s first educational Satellite EDUSAT , on September 20, 2004 into the Geosynchronous Transfer orbit, the face of Indian education is all set to undergo sea change

2.  ANJUMARIYA JOSEPH
NATURAL SCIENCE
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4.  The Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO)
launched India’s first educational Satellite
EDUSAT , on September 20, 2004 into the
Geosynchronous Transfer orbit, the face of
Indian education is all set to undergo sea
change.
 The EDUSAT as it is being called going to have
72 channels ready to be beamed from the height
of 36,000 miles.
 The entire program preparation constituted three
stages, The first stage is already in operation
with Ku-band transponder on board INSAT -3B
being used as part of the pilot project.

5.  In the second stage the satellite would be used in
semi-operational mode with at feast one uplink in
each of the five (Ku-based) spot beams.
 In this stage, about 100-200 classrooms would be
connected to each of them, providing educational
programmes to an estimated 50000 students.This
stage is expected to last for about two years.
 The third stage or the final stage shall be reached
when content transmission starts, the proposed
satellite is going to give us far greater outreach
and connectivity than hither to possible.

6.  It is expected that this satellite would offer
instructional facilities in the multi-media mode
and video on demand service
 EDUSAT is a culmination of India’s determined
efforts to launch an exclusive educational
satellite.

8. 1. This exclusive satellite for education will
overcome the search of quality teachers, Cocept
of education with no classrooms, no teachers
and no books would become a reality.
2. Science classes and laboratory experiments too
can thus be beamed from a virtual class.
3. A single lecturer can reach 10,000 students at
the same time.
4. The lecturer can be stored as computer file and
the students can access it according to their
convenience Audio CD can also be made is
necessary.