Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
San Marco 1 also known as San Marco A was the first Italian satellite and one of the earliest non-Soviet/US spacecraft. Built in-house by the Italian Space Research Commission (Italian: Commissione per le Ricerche Spaziali CRS) on behalf of the National Research Council it was the first of five as part of the Italian-US San Marco programme.The name of the spacecraft series comes from the San Marco platform a Jackup barge used as an offshore launch pad for the main phase of the project.
