**Goal:** Make it feel like a remote island space gateway.
Slide 4 – Santa Maria, Azores – Atlantic Gateway

Ponta da Ilha Lighthouse (2025). Creator: Diego Delso | CC BY-SA - wikimedia ![]()
Mid-Atlantic island with ground-station and spaceport ambitions. Ideal for a “Blue Commons” edition linking space observation, oceans and climate governance.

Santa Maria station - site support buildings wikipedia ![]()

São Lourenço beach, Santa Maria, Azores, Portugal - wikimedia ![]()
# Image ideas
1. ESA Santa Maria ground station – 5.5 m S-band dish with ocean/sky in the background. 1. Wider Santa Maria landscape with station in the distance (fields + Atlantic).
Nice pairing: one close-up of the dish, one wide “island at the edge of the ocean”.
# Locations
SEARCH 36.9726215, -25.1026495 Ilha de Santa Maria, Almagreira, Vila do Porto, Azores, Portugal
# See - Orbital Hubs - Example Orbital Hubs