Azores Hub

**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