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These projects are planned for 1998 and 1999 and the final report for
Project LEARN is anticipated in the year 2000.
There are today a growing number of test, demonstrations, and even
commercial projects in tele-education. It is hoped that Project LEARN
and perhaps other parallel global test and evaluation programs can
share more broadly and effectively the results of these tele-education
tests.
Conclusions
Today there are some 50 satellite carriers who have deployed some
200 GHz of satellite capacity in orbit, representing over 200 satellites.
The next decade may well see the number of satellite carriers growing
to 100 to 150 carriers and the total amount of satellite capacity (as
now proposed) could grow to 2000 GHz. This explosion of satellite
capacity in low, medium and geosynchronous satellite orbit should
make a tremendous amount of new space segment capacity that could
be used for tele-education and tele-medicine purposes. Further this
sudden expansion of capacity should also reduce the capital and
operating costs for tele-education systems. Systematic planning
efforts, like Project LEARN are needed now to exploit fully the new
capacity that will be increasingly available in the next few years.