India has been promoting education through use of satellites for the
last 3 decades since its first experiment satellite instructural television
experiment ( SITE ) conducted by ISRO in the year 1975.
Considering the benefits of satellite technology for mass education
ISRO & MHRD have launched a project EDUSAT by providing
a dedicated high power satellite named as EDUSAT .
EDUSAT is the first exclusive satellite for serving the educational
sector. It is specially configured for audio-visual medium employing
digital interactive classroom and multimedia multicentric system. The
satellite will have multiple regional beams covering different part
of India-five Ku-band transponders with sport beams covering northern,
north-eastern, eastern, southern and western regions of the country.
A ku band transponder with its footprint covering the Indian mainland
region and six C band transponders with their footprints covering the
entire country. These are shown below.
EDUSAT is primarily meant for providing connectivity to school, college
and higher levels of education and also to support non formal education
including developmental communication. The scope of the EDUSAT programme
is planned to be realized in phases.
While ISRO will provide the space segment for EDUSAT system and demonstrate
the efficiency of the satellite system for interactive distance education,
content generation is the responsibilities is the responsibility of
the user agencies. The quantity and quantity of the content would ultimately
decide
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Five lower Ku-band transponders for spot beam coverage with
55 dBW Edge of Coverage-Effective Isotropic Radiated Power (EOC-EIRP)
One lower Ku-band transponder for national coverage with
50 dBW EOC-IRP
Six upper extended C-band transponders for national coverage
with 37 dBW EOC-EIRP
One Ku-band beacon to help ground users for accurate antenna
pointing and uplink power control