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Space launch site(s) Italy, in 3 editions.

The entry for Italy published Space launch site(s) in 3 editions of 36, from 2023 to 2025. The text changed in 2 editions. Each is shown as published. Space launch site(s) in every entry.

editions changed the text
2
the first edition with it
2023
the latest edition with it
2025

Published as “Space launch site(s)” (2023 to 2025).

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  • the Broglio (aka San Marco, Malindi) Space Center, located near Malindi, Kenya, served from 1967 to 1988 as an Italian and international satellite launch facility;
  • in 2020, Italy concluded a deal with Kenya to conduct rocket launches from the site again in the future;
  • the Italian Space Agency has utilized the site as a satellite ground station since 2004

the Italian Government has designated the Taranto-Grottaglie Airport as a future spaceport and signed framework agreements with commercial space companies that could lead to suborbital and orbital launches from what would be called the Grottaglie Spaceport (2025)

the Broglio (aka San Marco, Malindi) Space Center, located near Malindi, Kenya, served from 1967 to 1988 as an Italian and international satellite launch facility; in 2020, Kenya Italy concluded a new deal with Italy Kenya to conduct rocket launches from the site again in the future; in 2018, the Italian Space Agency has utilized the site as a satellite ground station since 2004
the Italian
Government has designated the Taranto-Grottaglie Airport as a future spaceport and signed framework agreements with commercial space companies that could lead to suborbital and orbital launches from what would be called the Grottaglie Spaceport (2024) (2025)

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Central Intelligence Agency. “Italy: Space launch site(s).” The World Factbook, 2023–2025 editions. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/italy/space-launch-site-s.

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