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From: nickw@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Nick Watkins)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: BSB Satellite launch?
Message-ID: <1302@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 28 Aug 89 21:11:58 GMT
References: <1903@brwa.inmos.co.uk> <152@bmers58.UUCP>
Reply-To: nickw@syma.susx.ac.uk (Nick Watkins)
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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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