Definitions for "Astra"
The Astra was an American automobile manufactured in 1920. The car was built by a subsidiary concern of Dorris, and was shown that year in its native St. Louis.
The Astra was an English car built by a subsidiary of British Anzani of Hampton Hill, Middlesex from 1954 to 1959. It claimed to be the smallest and cheapest four wheeler on the British market. The car had originally been built by JARC motors and sold as the Little Horse.
ASTRA was a type of nuclear research reactor built in Seibersdorf, Austria. The acronym stands for Adaptierter Schwimmbecken-Typ-Reaktor Austria (Adapted swimming pool-type reactor Austria). ASTRA operated from 1960 to 1999.
Keywords:  cohn, tanaka, shojin, sidra, oishi
Astra is an 8-part manga mini-series collaboration between Americans golden age Batman artist Jerry Robinson and singer/songwriter Sidra Cohn along with Japanese mangaka Shojin Tanaka and Ken-ichi Oishi. Astra was originally conceived as a theatrical musical and represents one of the few instances of Americans collaborating with Japanese to create a true manga, as opposed to Amerimanga, which is Americans drawing in the manga style.
Astra is a fictional character, a supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe. She first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #366 and was created by Alan Davis.
Astra is a 1985 album by rock supergroup Asia. Started in 1984, Astra is the last Asia album to feature John Wetton on lead vocals. After being brought back into the fold for their third album, Wetton and Geoff Downes forged ahead with this effort.
The Astra satellites 1a, 1b and 1c transmit the majority of English language TV stations. Sky TV has been broadcasting via Astra since February 1989. Link: Satellite TV guide.
Operated by the Socitete Europeenne des Satellite (Luxembourg), the Astra Satellite family (1A-E) provides about 56 transponder for analog and digital direct-to-home transmission channels of Audio and TV-programmes in Europe.
Keywords:  fxc, aad, corporation
An AAD made by FXC Corporation.
Australian Subscription Television and Radio Association The industry body which represents subscription television and radio broadcasters and narrowcasters.
Australian Strategic Air Traffic Management Group
a small independent record shop based in Alton, Hampshire
Keywords:  hurled, missile, enemy, weapon, type
a missile -type weapon which is to be hurled at an enemy