Broglio Space Center

San Marco platform
	The San Marco platform, with a Scout launch vehicle on the launch pad.
Launch site	San Marco platform
Location	Malindi, Kenya
Coordinates	2°56′18″S 40°12′45″E / 2.93833°S 40.21250°E
Operator	Italian Space Agency; (formerly Sapienza University of Rome and NASA)
Total launches	27
Launch pad(s)	2
Orbital inclination ; range	2.0–3.0°
Status
San Marco launch history
Status	Inactive
Launches	24
First launch	26 April 1967; Scout B
Last launch	25 March 1988; Scout G-1
Associated; rockets	Scout; Nike-Apache; Nike Tomahawk; Tomahawk; Arcas; Black Brant; Astrobee;
Santa Rita launch history
Status	Inactive
Launches	3
First launch	25 March 1964; Nike-Apache
Last launch	2 April 1964; Nike-Apache
Associated; rockets	Nike-Apache

The Luigi Broglio Space Center (BSC) located near Malindi, Kenya, is an Italian Space Agency (ASI) Spaceport. It was named after its founder and Italian space pioneer Luigi Broglio.^[1] Developed in the 1960s through a partnership between the Sapienza University of Rome's Aerospace Research Centre and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the BSC served as a spaceport for the launch of both Italian and international satellites (1967–1988). The center comprises a main offshore launch site, known as the San Marco platform, as well as two secondary control platforms and a communications ground station on the mainland.

In 2003, a legislative decree handed management of the center to ASI, beginning in 2004, and the name changed from the previous San Marco Equatorial Range.^[2]^[3] While the ground station is still in use for satellite communications, the BSC is not currently used as a launch site.^[4]

^ "The San Marco Project Research Centre". Centro di Ricerca Progetto San Marco – University of Rome "La Sapienza". Retrieved 23 August 2010.
^ "Italian Space Agency". European Commission – CORDIS (Community Research and Development Information Service). Archived from the original on 6 January 2013. Retrieved 23 August 2010.
^ "Space Primer – Chapter 20 – Rest-Of-World (ROW) Space Launch Systems" (PDF). United States Air Force Air University. August 2003. p. 21. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 23 August 2010. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^ "Malindi station". European Space Agency. Retrieved 23 August 2010.

[cprsm-1] "The San Marco Project Research Centre". Centro di Ricerca Progetto San Marco – University of Rome "La Sapienza". Retrieved 23 August 2010.

[CORDIS-2] "Italian Space Agency". European Commission – CORDIS (Community Research and Development Information Service). Archived from the original on 6 January 2013. Retrieved 23 August 2010.

[airuni-3] "Space Primer – Chapter 20 – Rest-Of-World (ROW) Space Launch Systems" (PDF). United States Air Force Air University. August 2003. p. 21. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 23 August 2010. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

[malstat-4] "Malindi station". European Space Agency. Retrieved 23 August 2010.

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