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Judi Lynn

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Sun Jul 9, 2017, 01:02 PM Jul 2017

Bolivia Will Air Satellite Educational TV Channel

La Paz, Jul 5 (Prensa Latina) The Bolivian Space Agency (ABE) will put into operation a television channel to promote educational programs in the field of satellite technologies.

Director of ABE, Ivan Zambrana, explained that initially the Agency created a space to spread contents referring to operations and services offered by Bolivian satellite Tupac Katari (TKSAT-1).

The entity works in a project to have programming in technology and thus incentivate sientific research in the sector of education in order to motivate youths to study careers of engineering and pure sciences to contrtibute to the development of this sector in the country, said Zambrana.

Bolivia joined the nations of the region that have their own satellite, among them Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela, by putting in orbit on December 20, 2013 the Tupac Katari.

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