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 / -2.93833; 40.21250
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°
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]