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Answer» What is Satellite Instructional Television Experiment mean? Satellite Instructional Television Experiment or SITE was an experimental satellite communications project launched in India in 1975, designed jointly by NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). The project made available informational television programs to rural India. The main objectives of the experiment were to educate the financially backward and academically illiterate people of India on various issues via satellite broadcasting, and also to help India gain technical experience in the field of satellite communications. The experiment ran for one year from 1 August 1975 to 31 July 1976, covering more than 2400 villages in 20 districts of six Indian states and territories (Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Rajasthan). The television programs were produced by All India Radio and broadcast by NASA's ATS-6 satellite stationed above India for the duration of the project. The project was supported by various international agencies such as the UNDP, UNESCO, UNICEF and ITU. The experiment was successful, as it played a major role in helping develop India's own satellite program, INSAT. The project showed that India could use advanced technology to fulfill the socio-economic needs of the country. SITE was followed by similar experiments in various countries, which showed the important role satellite TV could play in providing education. reference | Full Form | Category | | Space Influences on the Terrestrial Environment | Academic & Science | | Student Invention Through Education | Academic & Science | | Science, Innovation, Technology, and Engineering | Academic & Science | | School of Information Technology and Engineering, VIT University | Academic & Science | | Secret In Their Eyes | Academic & Science | | Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics | Academic & Science | | Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics | Academic & Science | | System Integration, Test, and Evaluation | Academic & Science | | Student Introduction To Engineering | Academic & Science | | Society of Incentive Travel Executives | Business | | Sindh Industrial Trading Estate | Business | | Standard Income Tax on Employees | Business | | Society of Insurance Trainers Educators | Business | | SiteOne Landscape Supply, Incorporated | Business | | Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education | Community | | Society of Incentive and Travel Executives | Community | | Society for Incentive Travel Excellence | Community | | Satellite Instructional Television Experiment | Community | | Sign In To Enter | Computing | | School of Information Technology and Engineering | Computing | | Systems Integration Testing Environment | Computing | | Strategic Information Technology Effectiveness | Computing | | Stormwater Innovative Technology Evaluators | Computing | | Society for Information Technology in Education | Computing | | Supernatural Intuitive Transmundane Entity | General | | Site Impact Traffic Evaluation | General | | Satellite Informational Television Entertainment | General | | Substantial, Interactive, Targeted, and Easy | Governmental | | Search for International Terrorist Entities | Governmental | | Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation | Governmental | | Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence | Governmental | | Smithsonian Institute Traveling Exhibition | Governmental | | Shipboard Information, Training, and Entertainment | Governmental | | Skills for Independence Transition and Employment | Governmental | | Sindicato Independiente de Trabajadores de la Enseñanza | International |
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