With the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957, there was a desire from many counties to pursue their own satellite research programmes.
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The facility he conceived, originally the San Marco Equatorial Range, is now named in his honour as well as the asteroid 18542 Broglio.
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The programme would lead to the launch of the first Italian-built satellite, San Marco 1, one of the first not built by either of the era's superpowers, the Soviet Union or the United States.
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In Italy, the influential physicist Edoardo Amaldi in particular would press for the creation of an indigenous programme.
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The Luigi Broglio Space Centre (BSC) is an Italian-owned spaceport near Malindi, Kenya, named after its founder and Italian space pioneer Luigi Broglio.