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Kenya eyes satellite launch market with planned Tana River spaceport
The Luigi Broglio Space Centre near Malindi, a joint Italian-Kenyan spaceport, was developed in the 1960s in partnership with NASA. It hosted Italian and international satellite launches between 1967 and 1988 and included the offshore San Marco launch platform and a mainland ground station.
The government plans to construct a commercial spaceport in Kipini, Tana River County, as it seeks to develop satellite launch capabilities and expand Kenya’s domestic space economy.
The National Treasury is already scouting for a transaction adviser to support the Kenya Space Agency (KSA) in developing the proposed facility under a public-private partnership (PPP) model.
