Italy’s Extra Aircraft Carrier Could Become A Floating Space Base

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Italy is about to have an extra aircraft carrier. Never one to waste a useful old ship, the Italian military is considering modifying the vessel to function as a floating launch pad for space rockets.

That makes equatorial territory extremely valuable for space launches. It’s not for no reason the European Space Agency has a spaceport at Kourou in French Guiana.

“The testing of the launch wells was carried out, which were followed, until August 1962, by the test launches, both when the ship was stationary and at sea,” the magazine noted. The old cruiser experiment isn’t a perfect analogue to the current proposal. But there’s not a lot of difference between a space-launch vehicle and an ICBM. Indeed, two of the European Space Agency’s main rockets—the Scout and Vega—borrow technology from the Italian Alfa rocket, which Rome developed as an alternative to Polaris.into a space-launch platform. It might be cheaper and easier to acquire a commercial-style vessel for the same purpose.

 

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