Portugal

Portugal is building a unique position in European space through the development of the Santa Maria Spaceport in the Azores, which received its first operating license in 2025 for suborbital and future orbital launches in the mid-Atlantic corridor. Portugal Space, the national space agency established in 2019, coordinates ESA participation and has secured ESA's Space Rider reusable vehicle landing site on Santa Maria Island. The country's growing space downstream ecosystem includes over 100 companies leveraging satellite data and communications.