re revival of san marco was re commercial space news higgins fnalf fnal gov bill higgins beam jockey writes in article a ofa fidonet org wales larrison ofa fidonet org writes commercial space news space technology investor number other commercial launch site ventures including those at woomera poker flat cape york white sands alabama off shore platform hawaii and vandenberg have to also be judged against these criteria in my opinion some of these ventures are flying on hope and speculation and not on sound financial grounds this reminds me my fuzzy brain recalls that somebody was thinking of reviving the san marco launch platform off the coast of kenya where the copernicus satellite was launched around is this true or am i imagining it possibly it s connected with one of the italian programs to revive the scout in a new version that old platform must be getting pretty rusty and there ain t a lot of infrastructure to go with it my information shows that the last san marco launch was there seem to have been a total of seven before that i seem to recall that someone either asi or the university of rome includes money in their annual budget for maintainance of the platforms there are actually two the italians have been spending money to develop an advanced scout however recent events in the italian space program and the italian government overall make me skeptical that this will get off the ground in the near future josh hopkins jbh uxa cso uiuc edu find a way or make one attributed to hannibal
