Talk:San Marco platform
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[edit] Floating
If I look at the picture, it doesn't look like a floating platform, more like a Self-elevating platform. Anybody who knows more details? BoH 12:24, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
- I believe there is citable evidence that it is not floating, but is instead located in quite shallow water. But until that evidence is found, I'll simply note it in the article as being dubious. (sdsds - talk) 03:54, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
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- Normally they are not floating: San Marco and Santa Rita have extensible legs that firmly connect them to seabed. Anyway, theoretically, retracting the legs, they can float. But, in order to operate, they can't float. Both platforms were used elsewere (San Marco by US Army, Santa Rita by ENI Oil Company) and moved to Malindi simply dragged by a ship. Santa Rita even through the Suez Canal. Anyway San Marco has never moved again, instead Santa Rita was recently moved away from San Marco in order to arrange the Space Centre for more powerful launchers that never arrived. So, for a short time, Santa Rita floated again. The full story of italian glorious days in space conquer and the San Marco Project is covered by a book on Luigi Broglio titled "Nella nebbia, in attesa del sole" ("In the fog, waiting for the sunshine"), unfortunately only in italian. The book, in the form of an interview to Luigi Broglio, was published by Di Rienzo Editore in 2005. The link is
- http://www.direnzo.it/main.phtml?Language=en&Doc=0001&ISBN=8883231260 .
- You can see the San Marco Platform by yourself in a video on the launch of the San Marco C (also called San Marco 3) you can find on the website of the italian department of defence.
- The San Marco C satellite:
- http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1971-036A
- The video on the San Marco C launch:
- http://www.difesa.it/NR/rdonlyres/0E6A134B-2300-46FC-B58D-733CCFFCE5F9/5752/sanmarco.wmv
- There is even a third small platform, called "Santa Rita 2", used for power generators and other devices.
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- Maybe someone else can add links in proper english. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 62.128.65.20 (talk) 09:12, August 20, 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Sea Launch
I have re-added the link to Sea Launch. Maybe it was only removed accidentally during a merge, but if not, my argument for having the link is that the San Marco platform and Sea Launch obviously have more in common than simply both being spaceports, and readers of this article would probably be somewhat more interested in Sea Launch than they would be in any of the other spaceports in that Wikipedia category. —Fleminra 19:38, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
