SATELLITE SYSTEMS FOR INSTRUCTIONAL RADIO,

Abstract

Recent studies suggest that ETV broadcast from geostationary satellites can markedly reduce the cost and time required to provide educational opportunity to the citizens of large less-developed countries. The sheer volume of educational needs precludes, however, the possibility of satisfying very many of them with only a few (1 to 10) information channels. A thorough systems analysis of instructional satellite systems (if such be possible) would examine the myriad interactions conceivable among components of the technical system, the educational system, the economy, and society as a whole. While we shall not altogether ignore these interactions, our concern here is less ambitious. Our purpose in this paper is simply to point out the economic and technical attractiveness of satellite-based instructional radio systems with 50 to 200 channels. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1968
Accession Number
AD0673829

Entities

People

  • Dean Jamison
  • Marshall Jamison
  • Sylvia Hewlett

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Satellites
  • Cooperation
  • Geosynchronous Satellites
  • Radio Equipment
  • Space Systems
  • Spacecraft
  • Systems Analysis
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • STEM Education
  • Software Engineering
  • Strategic Security Studies

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Satellites