India would launch a satellite in June next year to provide computer connectivity in remote villages.
"We are going to launch GSAT-4 which will have digital connectivity on board. It is meant for data transfers from computers at remote villages", Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation, G Madhavan Nair, told an international conference on e-science and grid computing in Bangalore on Monday night.
ISRO officials said GSAT-4 is a technology demonstrator. Its communication payload comprises multi-beam Ka-band beam pipe and regenerative transponder and navigation payload.
Nair said the satellite would initially provide computer connectivity to a few hundred remote villages in the country on an experimental basis.
"Ultimately, it has to grow into a national system (an initiative whereby satellite should provide such service to all remote villages in the country eventually)",
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