- Italian aerospace engineer, Professor at the School of Aerospace Engineering at Sapienza University Rome and Colonel in the Italian Air Force
- Architect of the San Marco project, the Italian-US collaboration which sent into orbit the first all-European satellite in December 1964
- Vice Chairman of GEERS and COPERS in the early 1960s
- 1988 - Vice-President of the Italian Space Agency until his resignation and retirement in 1993.
Broglio was chief figure in the Italian national space programme and its relations with NASA, ESRO and ELDO. He was one of the Vice-Chairmen of the study group for space research GEERS and in the subsequent preparatory commission COPERS. He was instrumental in the creation of the Italian ESRO institution, ESRIN, proposed as a research laboratory and located in Frascati.
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