[sci.space] BSB Satellite launch?

nickw@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Nick Watkins) (08/29/89)

In article <152@bmers58.UUCP> hwt@bmerh490.UUCP () writes:

>So what kind of DBS is already in use [in the UK] ? (Direct Broadcast 
>Satellite).
 It is called Astra and was launched with Britain's first Skynet 4 military
comsat on an Ariane. It carries Rupert Murdoch's Sky Channel.

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