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# Portugal licenses its first spaceport, on Santa Maria in the Azores
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2025-08-13-portugal-santa-maria-spaceport-licence/
- Published: 2025-08-13T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-16T12:00:44.000Z
- Description: Portugal's communications regulator ANACOM granted the Atlantic Spaceport Consortium a five year licence to operate a launch centre at Malbusca on Santa Maria in the Azores, the country's first such licence.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Defence and space, #news, #reported, #editor-read

Reported Editor-read [Observador, 13 August 2025](https://observador.pt/2025/08/13/asc-recebe-licenca-para-explorar-centro-de-lancamento-espacial-em-santa-maria-nos-acores/?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** Does not establish that any launch operator has secured the separate per launch licence still needed to fly from the site.

**How this item counts.** This item is dated before the index starts on 1 January 2026, so it does not count in the [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/).

**How this item was made.** Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above; read and approved by the editor on 2026-10-16\. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)