Abstract
The sixth Applications Technology Satellite (ATS-6), described as the world’s largest and most powerful communications spacecraft, is the first of a new generation of space robots. It is designed to transmit from synchronous orbit with power sufficient for its signals to be received by small and inexpensive ground stations. Educational television programming to isolated regions where terrestrial TV coverage is not feasible is being planned to demonstrate the capabilities of this 1,360 kg. craft. After the first year of operation, the ATS is to be moved over the Indian Ocean to transmit instructional material to some 3,000 community receivers in rural and remote villages in India. The satellite instructional television experiment should answer whether community sets used for direct reception could be maintained in working order; whether the instructional and educational programmes are effective; whether the results are adequate and commensurate with the money spent; and a host of such other questions.
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