• known as Marcopolo) is a family of satellites designed, launched and tested by Hughes Space and Communications (now part of Boeing Satellite Systems)...
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  • and the Marcopolo satellites were eventually sold, leaving the squarial obsolete. (Marcopolo 1 on 21 December 1993 to NSAB of Sweden and Marcopolo 2 on 1...
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    regulation, the Marcopolo satellites were eventually withdrawn and later sold (Marcopolo 1 on 21 December 1993 to NSAB of Sweden and Marcopolo 2 on 1 July...
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    Sirius Satellite Radio service) was started in 1993 with the purchase of the BSB Marcopolo 1 satellite (renamed Sirius 1) by Nordic Satellite AB (NSAB)...
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  • opting out of the regular Sky News service during weekends on the Marcopolo satellite (which was owned by BSB prior to the merger and which carried Now)...
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  • December – Galaxy and Now are closed down and are replaced on the Marcopolo satellite by Sky One and Sky News although arts programmes are shown for a...
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    Marco Polo House (originally stylised as "Marcopolo") was a large marble-effect, glass-clad office building and TV studio at 346 Queenstown Road, facing...
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    throughout BSB's short spell on air from March to December 1990 on the Marcopolo satellites. On 2 November 1990, BSB merged with Sky to form British Sky Broadcasting...
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  • favour of Sky's leased Astra satellite operations). The satellite had previously operated as Marcopolo 1. It operated at 5.0° East from 1994 until 2000, when...
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    Broadcasting, after the merger with rival British Satellite Broadcasting on the Marcopolo satellite), the services consisted of Sky Channel, Sky News...
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  • Marcopolo satellite. It replaces BSB's entertainment channel Galaxy. 1991 No events. 1992 31 December – Sky One stops broadcasting via the Marcopolo satellite...
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  • communications. Hughes added the following to Boeing's portfolio: HS-376 – MEASAT, Marcopolo, and others HS-601 – ProtoStar II, and others HS-702, now the Boeing 702...
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  • expert Chris Stacey. The show got its name from the placing of BSB's Marcopolo Satellite at 31 degrees west. Stand-up comedy show. Comedians featured included...
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  • viewers via the newly launched Astra 1B satellite on that date. It continued to transmit on BSB's Marcopolo satellite. The channel was sold as one of the...
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  • Movies launches on the Marcopolo satellite, replacing The Power Station. 15 April — The Movie Channel launches on Astra 1B satellite at 8pm UK time with...
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  • consolidation of ITV over the next decade. 1 July – The former BSB satellite Marcopolo 2 is sold to Norway's Telenor and renamed Thor 1. 3 July Columbia...
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  • New Zealand action thriller Steel Riders. 18 August – BSB's second Marcopolo satellite is launched. 20 August – The final episode of Miami Vice, Freefall...
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  • together. 27 August Launch date of the first Marcopolo Satellite which will serve as a platform for British Satellite Broadcasting that will launch the following...
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    Squarial (category Satellite television)
    modified the squarial to operate with the Thor satellite system (formerly BSB's own satellites, Marcopolo) after the decline of BSB. This was due in large...
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  • 2014-03-23. "Tv digitale divide - Sky "caccia" i canali Alice, Leonardo e Marcopolo". Archived from the original on 2014-02-23. Retrieved 2014-03-23. "Alice...
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  • list of national Italian TV services available on digital terrestrial, satellite, cable systems in Italy. Some channels have a "timeshift" service, i.e...
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  • Polo (spacecraft), a proposed asteroid mission Marcopolo, either of two 1980s communications satellites Marco Polo (1851 ship), a clipper Marco Polo, former...
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  • Sony (2017-2019) Alpha (2017-2019) Spike (2017-2022) Alice (1999-2020) Marcopolo (1997-2020) Paramount Network (2016-2022) Case Design Stili (2017-2020)...
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  • of the Thor T/A ultralight aircraft Thor 1 or Marcopolo 2, a satellite in the Thor family of satellites Thor (film), a 2011 American superhero film Thor...
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    Sky Group (category Direct broadcast satellite services)
    minimum guaranteed payments. The defunct Marcopolo I satellite was sold in December 1993 to Sweden's NSAB, and Marcopolo II went to Norway's Telenor in July...
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    investigation of the aurora borealis, sounding rocket launches, and satellite tracking, among other things. Located 200 km north of the Arctic Circle...
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  • MARCOPOLO FUORI DA SKY. E LA TONA LANCIA LA CAMPAGNA #CHEFAIMICACCI? (MA NON HA LE FREQUENZE DI SPORTITALIA SUL DTT?) I canali LT lasciano satellite (e...
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  • HS-376 (category Satellite buses)
    to as the BSS-376, and previously as the HS-376) is a communications satellite bus introduced in 1978 by Hughes Space and Communications Company. It...
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  • space launch vehicle derived from the PGM-17 Thor (satellite) (previously known as Marcopolo), a satellite constellation owned by Telenor THOR, a type of...
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    engine technology. Tata Motors and Marcopolo have a joint venture called Tata Marcopolo, where Tata owns 51% and Marcopolo owns 49%. Volvo Group and Eicher...
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