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Indeed Italy was the third nation to put in orbit an its own satellite, back in the early '60s, even with a U.S. launcher.It was under the so-called "San Marco Project" (taking the name by the first satellite San Marco 1), strongly pursued by Gen. Luigi Broglio a scientist and militar at the same time.Broglio was able to manage the realization of an Italian own launch base, off Kenya's coast in Formosa Bay, exploiting two offshore oil platforms transformed in Scout launch base (San Marco the bigger one) and mission control center (Santa Rita the smaller one).By there Italy launched a bunch of Scout with Italian satellites and some US and UK ones also.The last launch happened in 1988, since then nothing.....but the two platforms are still there.
Indeed Italy was the third nation to put in orbit an its own satellite, back in the early '60s, even with a U.S. launcher.
It was under the so-called "San Marco Project" (taking the name by the first satellite San Marco 1), strongly pursued by Gen. Luigi Broglio a scientist and militar at the same time.
Broglio was able to manage the realization of an Italian own launch base, off Kenya's coast in Formosa Bay, exploiting two offshore oil platforms transformed in Scout launch base (San Marco the bigger one) and mission control center (Santa Rita the smaller one).
By there Italy launched a bunch of Scout with Italian satellites and some US and UK ones also.
The last launch happened in 1988, since then nothing.....but the two platforms are still there.
