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Satcom for Education Innovative Schools – teaching & learning in the digital era N. Hübner Integrated and Telecom related Applications European Space Agency Brussels, 04/05/2015

Document Number: ESA-TIAA-HO-2015-0557 ESA UNCLASSIFIED – For Official Use

“To provide for and promote, for exclusively peaceful

purposes, cooperation among European states in space research and technology and their space

applications.”

Article 2 of ESA Convention

PURPOSE OF ESA

ESA has 22 Member States: AT, BE, CH, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, IT, GR, HU, IE, LU, NL, NO, PT, PL, RO, SE, UK Six other EU states have Cooperation Agreements with ESA: Slovenia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta and the Slovak Republic. Bulgaria is negotiating a Cooperation Agreement. Canada takes part in some programmes under a Cooperation Agreement.

22 MEMBER STATES AND GROWING

1. Space science 2. Human spaceflight 3. Exploration 4. Earth observation 5. Launchers

ACTIVITIES

• Navigation • Telecommunications & Integrated Applications • Technology • Operations

ESA is one of the few space agencies in the world to combine responsibility in nearly all areas of space activity.

* Space science is a Mandatory programme, all Member States contribute to it according to GNP. All other programmes are Optional, funded ‘a la carte’ by Participating States.

Budget 2015 4433.0 M€

ESA 2015 BUDGET BY DOMAIN

Technology support* 2.4%, 105.3 M€

Navigation* 15.0%, 664.5 M€

M€: Million Euro *includes Programmes implemented for

other Institutional Partners

Robotic Exploration & Prodex

3.5%, 155.8 M€

Human Spaceflight 8.4%, 371.4 M€

Launchers 13.7%, 607.7 M€

Telecom & Integrated Applications*

7.0%, 309.2 M€

Earth Observation* 28.3%, 1254.3 M€

Scientific Programme 11.5%, 507.9 M€

Associated with General Budget

4.7%, 209.0 M€

Basic Activities 5.2%, 232.1 M€

European Cooperating States Agreement

(ECSA) 0.0%, 2.0 M€

Space Situational Awareness 0.3%, 13.9 M€

TELECOMMUNICATIONS &

INTEGRATED APPLICATIONS

A balanced combination of generic envelope programme Elements

ARTES 1: Preparatory ARTES 3-4: Satcom Space and Ground Segment Products

and Satcom Applications ARTES 5: Technology ARTES 20: Integrated Applications Promotion

and specific Mission/System orientated Programme Elements

ARTES 7: EDRS – European Data Relay Satellite System ARTES 8: Alphabus/Alphasat – Large Platform Mission ARTES 10: Iris – Satcom for Air Traffic Management ARTES 11: Small GEO platform/mission ARTES 14: NEOSAT – Next Generation Platform ARTES 21: Sat-AIS – Satellite Automatic Identification System ARTES 33: Industry initiated Public Private Partnerships

The ARTES programme as of today (= Advanced Research in TElecommunication Systems)

ESA’s Integrated Applications Promotion Programme (ARTES 20)

The goal :

Foster new utilization of existing space capacity and

capability, in close partnership with end-users, through

the development of integrated (different space and non

space technologies) applications projects which

demonstrate a potential for sustainable services.

Addressing global challenges in different thematic areas:

Space for: Health, Safety, Transport, Energy, Water,

Environment, Agriculture, Insurance, Education, …

Incubator of Services

Many households in Europe are not expected to have broadband even by 2020

Projected % of households that do not have a superfast line by 2020 (the inverse of the commercial take-up by 2020). They may be outside the footprint for superfast networks or they may have accessibility but either cannot afford it or just have nott taken a line

Results from the BB-MED (BroadBand MEditerranean Development) ESA Study made in cooperation with the EIB

Investment gap: a major bottleneck

• The Council of the EU notes [1] : The investment needs for achieving the Digital Agenda objective are estimated to reach up to EUR 270 billion … while the private sector investment is expected to be not more than EUR 50 billion until 2020: the resulting investment gap represents a major bottleneck to infrastructure provision

• Even for basic Broadband: ‘A huge investment would be needed to secure 1Mbps coverage at an affordable price for all households in the EU’ according to Commissioner Kroes [2]

• Satellite broadband appears as the most efficient and in many cases the only means for providing broadband in areas where the cost of terrestrial network deployment is prohibitive

• In particular in rural and remote areas, where satellites may be the only means for communication, their role may be key for growth and for retaining local population

• Satellites are recognized by Governments as a means to connect rural citizens: in Australia public plans for broadband include 48.000 satellite internet connections (10.000 already in place) using existing satellites, and two new high throughput broadband satellites (HTS) have been ordered

[1] Council of the EU, Brussels, 30 and 31 May 2012-Conclusions on the Digital Single Market and Governance of the Single Market [2] Commissioner N. Kroes, SPEECH/10/537, Dublin, 12 October 2010

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ESA Telecom applications on education Examples

Within ESA’s Satcom application programmes activities on tele-education / tele-learning since more than 15 years.

Examples (ref: http://artes.esa.int) • Espresso for Schools (1998-1999): High bandwidth delivery of interactive, rich multimedia

content in UK primary school curricula (pilot with 200 UK schools) • TRAPEZE (1999-2001): satellite tele-education service showcase for travelling people like

those in circus or fairground communities using 2-way Satcom platform (pilot with 3 schools in Poland)

• CROCUS - CROss-Cultural Satellite services for immigrant communities in Europe (2000-2003): disseminate multimedia and interactive didactic units for 1st / 2nd language learning and intercultural education via Satcom to schools, cultural centres, libraries, etc. to facilitate the integration of migrant students (pilot with 30 schools and cultural centres in Italy and Albania)

• HAMLET - Hypermedia Academic Multicultural Learning Technology (2003-2005): open and flexible learning environment characterised by a synchronic and diachronic distance teaching (pilot with 5 universities in Italy involving 60 students).

• V4DL - VideoSat for Distance Learning (2005-2009): satellite broadband and broadcast to provide value added services for Continuing Medical Education and Medical Scientific TV implementing a distance learning methodology that binds emotional and narrative learning theory with video simulation technology (Edufiction) (pilot with 23 users / doctors)


ESA Telecom applications on education Examples

Within ESA’s Satcom application programmes activities on tele-education / tele-learning since more than 15 years.

Examples (ref: http://artes-apps.esa.int) • Sway4Edu – Satellite way for Education (2012-2013): Provision of interactive, on-

line eLeraning courses about literacy teaching to rural teachers in South Africa via Satcom (pilot service to 80 teachers in 12 schools); in addition, teachers and students can use the connectivity for Internet access, light cyber-café for local community after school.

• Sway4Edu2 (2014-2015): additional cluster of 12 schools in South Africa and 1 school in Italy with dedicated training material on preservation of natural environment

• U-Project – Immersive Learning Space (2014-2016): Novel immersive eLearning platform to enable teachers and students to translate their ideas into digital rich multimedia content ready to be used and shared with other classrooms, universities, students using a multicasting content delivery network (pilot service with 4 universities/ high schools and students located in digital divide areas)


ESA Telecom applications on education – A visual example in rural schools in Africa

Sway4Edu: 400$ one-off for Sat terminal HW

and installation 100$ per school per month for

Internet, eLearning and HW maintenance services


Satcom for Education by European Satellite Operators

• SES Broadband (LU) eEducation Network: Oct/2014: Live Interactive Classroom application for use in eLearning project called KUganda connecting Catholic University Eichstätt (DE) to the Permanent Center for Education in Kampala (Uganda); it enables seamless audio/video communications with multiple students anywhere (ref: http://www.ses-broadband.com/20292948/14-10-13-elearning-live)

• Avantic Communications (UK): “Avanti Connected Education” service for Africa Nov/2014: Project iMlango in Kenya in partnership with Department for International Development (DFID) to reach 150,000 children, a third of whom are marginalised girls establishing a dynamic internet learning platform, accessed through high-speed satellite connectivity, where partners provide students with interactive educational content (ref: http://avantiplc.com/sites/default/files/case_studies/imlango-case-study.pdf) Apr/2015: Avanti Communications and Universal Communications Service Access Fund (UCSAF) have announced deployment of a significant satellite broadband installation programme to deliver major ICT infrastructure and e-learning programme “iKnowledge” providing infrastructure, digital training and educational content to teachers in 25 rural Tanzanian schools (URL: http://www.avantiplc.com/news-media/trade/avanti-communications-ucsaf-deliver-satellite-broadband-25-tanzania-schools, http://allafrica.com/stories/201504272304.html)


Satcom to bridge the digital divide

No doubt that Satcom is well placed to serve communities in isolated or underserved areas

Sustainable solutions for education require: 1) Provision of adequate Satcom systems and services at

affordable costs 2) Effective Educational content, updating, sharing

and fruition 3) A set of actions to facilitate the acceptance and integration

of the new technologies into the real world of the remote communities


Satcom to bridge the digital divide 1) Adequate Satcom solutions

In the past 5 years the portfolio of Satcom solutions has rapidly grown in the consumer market with affordable CAPEX and OPEX cost

Small dishes, not intrusive installations, easy to use Reliable and performing services A complete Satcom terminal (including installation)

costs as low as a few hundreds of EUR Monthly service fees as low as a few tens of EUR

Therefore the cost, performance and logistic aspects of

Satcom solutions are not anymore a barrier for private consumers


Example: Avanti Pricing Schemes for Satellite Broadband Internet Access in Scotland (http://www.simply-balanced-satellite.co.uk/avanti.html)

- standard equipment and installation from 649 GBP - Max. data rates 15 Mbps doven / 2.5 Mbps up - contention (sharing) ratio of 50:1 - 2 pricing schemes (Fair Usage Policy, Volume Based Billing)

Satcom to bridge the digital divide 1) Adequate Satcom solutions


Traditional eLearning systems have a distinct separation of roles between the domain experts (i.e. the teachers), the developers of multimedia educational content (i.e. the multimedia editors) and the learners / students

This separation of roles typically results in a waterfall type of information transfer from the teachers to the learner with heavy involvement of multimedia editors in the eLearning production chain, making often the current production and updating of the courses time-consuming and expensive

This role separation has to be superseded allowing teachers and students to become almost autonomous in content creation, updating and sharing

Satcom to bridge the digital divide 2) Effective educational content


As for any ICT solution (from office automation to entertainment) users’ adoption depends on a tricky encounter between:

characteristics of the solution (e.g. technical stability, performance, ease of use)

and capability of the users (e.g. willingness to learn, curiosity and availability to carry-out their daily tasks in an innovative way)

Therefore, a necessary condition for service uptake is that the two factors, technical and human, find a point of encounter

To facilitate this encounter, continuous service improvement is required: Monitoring, correction and implementation actions need to be systematically implemented for quality control by the service providers and by the local stakeholders and users (“Run-Monitor-Correct” loop)

The transfer of ownership of this process to the local stakeholders is of utmost importance but a challenging process requiring lot of time and resources

Satcom to bridge the digital divide 3) User acceptance


Satcom to bridge the digital divide 3) User acceptance


Trends in Satcom Announced Mega constellations (source: NSR, ESA)

Objectives: - internet for everyone - 20-30 Tbps bandwidth available by 2020 (factor 10 higher than without) - price/bit approaching terrestrial offerings - user equipment 100-300$

System Orbit Satellites Band Launch Status

O3B MEO 12-20 Ka 2007 Initial constellation of 12 satellites deployed

Iridium NEXT

LEO 66+ L 2015-2017 1x2 launch planned 2015 (DNEPR) and 7x10 launches planned 03/16-12/17 (SpaceX)

Laser Light

MEO 8-12 Optical 2018 Satellites under construction until 2016? Launches planned in 2017-2018

OneWeb LEO 640-2400

Ku 2018-2019 Spectrum licenses available, initial investors (Virgin Group, Qualcomm), joint venture partner selection under way

SpaceX LEO 4000+ N/A 2019-2020 Initial announcements made, investors (Google 900M$, Fidelity 100M$, even though later stated as investments into SpaceX, not specifically constellations)

LeoSat LEO 80-140 Ka 2019-2020 Study phase contracted with Thales Alenia Space

Xinwei LEO 32+ N/A 2019? Initiative by tycoon Wang Jing. 1 microsat in orbit. Deployment in 3 years (8x4 launches).


Norbert Hübner Head of Feasibility Studies Section Department of Integrated and Telecommunications-related Applications European Space Agency

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