 Data on failure rates was collected and analysis of the first 1800 failures was carried out to help design future DRS systems.As decided in the original agreement, the SITE program ended in July, 1976 and NASA shifted its ATS satellite away from India, despite demands from Indian villagers, journalists and others such as noted writer Arthur C. Clarke (who was presented with a SITE television set in Sri Lanka) for NASA to continue the experiment.The SITE transmissions had a very significant impact in the Indian villages.