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Rocket Report: A good week for Blue Origin; Italy wants its own launch capability (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Italy reopening the Broglio Space Center for launch from an old offshore oil platform is pretty interesting. That's a great latitude (2° S), but, man, that thing hasn't launched anything in 60 years. That's gonna take some serious renovation.