revival of san marco was re commercial space news in article a ofa fidonet org wales larrison ofa fidonet org writes commercial space news space technology investor number this might point out some key discriminators in judging the feasibility of a commercial launch site these include is there an identified key customer to provide core usage sufficient to recover setup costs is there a market advantage of using the site can existing infrastructure be used or modified at the site can financing be found at low enough cost to support the investment 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 bill higgins beam jockey we ll see you fermi national accelerator laboratory at white sands in june bitnet higgins fnal bitnet you bring your view graphs internet higgins fnal fnal gov and i ll bring my rocketship span hepnet higgins col pete worden on the dc x
