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BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE, PILANI

Satellite Communicati on System


Edusat (GSAT-3)
-Indias first exclusive educational satellite.

Edusat (GSAT-3)

Abbreviated for Educational Satellite , EDUSAT was Indias first Exclusive Educational Satellite. Owned by the Ministry of Education of India. Mainly intended to meet the demand for an interactive satellitebased distance education system for the country.

Launch..

EduSAT was launched on 20 September 2004 by the Indian Space Research Organisation. It was launched into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit on the first operational launch of the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, (GSLV (F04) rocket) at Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.

Orbit, Apogee and Period !


EDUSAT

was initially placed into a transfer orbit with a perigee of 180 kilometres (110 mi) and an apogee of 35,985 kilometres (22,360 mi) It has a period of 10.5 hours, inclined at 19.2 degrees to the equator.

Other Basic Info :

Payload: GramSat. Mass: 1,950 kg (4,290 lb). Nation: India Agency: ISRO Program: Insat. Class: Communications Type: Civilian communications satellite. Spacecraft: Gsat . USAF Sat Cat: 28417 . COSPAR: 2004-036A. Apogee: 35,801 km (22,245 mi). Perigee: 35,772 km (22,227 mi). Inclination: 0.1000 deg. Period: 1,436.10 min.

Purpose : Edusat

was the first Indian satellite built exclusively for the educational sector. It was mainly intended to meet the demand for an interactive satellite based distance education system for India. of the main objectives is the Rajiv Gandhi Project for EDUSAT Supported Elementary Education (RGPEEE)

One

Supported by
ISRO

MHRD

IGNOU

The project is supported by MHRDISRO IGNOU. The role of ISRO was to set up the technical infrastructure While IGNOU shared the responsibility to develop the content and train teachers for this mode of distance education.

Benefitted by this project..


Visveswaraiah

Technical University (VTU) is one of the main beneficiary of this pilot project. Under this project, all Engg. Colleges of VTU are being networked with 1000 nodes.

New Innovations Used


Compared

to earlier satellites in the Insat series, Edusat used several new technologies. The spacecraft was built around the I-2K standardised spacecraft bus.

New Innovations Used


It

had a Multiple Spot Beam Antenna with a 1.2 m reflector to direct Ku band spot beams

New Innovations Used


A

dual core bent heat pipe for thermal control

Other New Innovations in EduSat contd.


High

efficiency multi-junction solar cells and an improved thruster configuration for optimised propellant use for orbit and orientation maintenance. The satellite also used radiatively cooled Ku-band Travelling Wave Tube Amplifiers And a dielectrically loaded C-band demultiplexer for its communication payloads.

Payload

Edusat carried five Ku-band transponders providing spot beams. One Ku-band transponder providing a national beam Six Extended C-band transponders with a national coverage beam. It was to join the Insat system that already provided more than 130 transponders in Cband, Extended C-band and Ku-band for a variety of telecommunication and television services.

Latest Status
First

operational flight of launch vehicle. Launch delayed from July, August and September 10. Dry mass 820 kg. As of 2007 Mar 9 located at 73.92E drifting at 0.006W degrees per day.

Network Configuration

The RGPEEE Network configuration consist of 3.8 m Ku-Band Hub at PSM college Jabalpur (MP) and more than 700 Receive Only Terminals (ROTs) installed in Sidhi District of MP, and around 50 ROTs installed in Hindi Speaking states. This network is basically a DTH type of network but the unique feature of the network is that all the ROTs are Solar powered keeping in mind the power problem in villages.

Configuration of ROT for RGPEEE network


The

transmission scheme adopted for the network is digital video broadcasting (DVB) based on the MPEG-2 video compression.

Management of the network


Management

is done at a Two Tier System. 1. The Apex Committee, which consists of representatives of ISRO, MHRD, Participating state Governments; IGNOU; Indian Institute of Information Technology, Jabalpur, and Rani Durgavati University, Jabalpur,takes care of policy decisions . 2. Standing committee takes care of day-today affairs of the network.

Utilization
At

present the network with around 1000 ROTs is being utilized for 2 h per day for transmission of educational programs for primary and secondary schools of Hindi states. Contents developed: 600 Days of transmission: 382 Transmission hours: 1354 Teachers trained: 1599 Students benefited: 200 000.

Challenges: Feedback and Monitoring

Daily transmission record of schools; monitoring of meeting of cluster resource centre coordinators (CRCCs); monitoring of meetings of block resource centre coordinators (BRCCs); consolidation/review at District Institute of Education and Training (DIET); Interactive response by Project Director, Jabalpur.

Layout of the Program

Vision

The future vision for this successful project is:To increase the number of terminals as well as the increase in duration of transmission. At least 1000 ROTs should be installed and commissioned in each of participated Hindi Speaking States in 23 years. The 1012 h of transmission is visualized in 23 years. The 2 hr broadcasts should be allotted to each of the states based on their curriculum.

Conclusion
The

EduSat or the GSAT-3 has been successful in its mission because of the success of the teaching project across the lengths and breadths of the central India. The new innovative technologies used herein have helped in its timely operations and have enabled it to operate more than its estimated lifetime (i.e. 7 years). This paved the path to future technologies scope of Satellite Communication in Education.

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