The Atlantic Spaceport Consortium (ASC), founded in 2019, is a Portuguese consortium aiming to develop a commercial spaceport on Santa Maria Island in the Azores. ASC is comprised of the Portuguese companies Ilex Space and Optimal Structural Solutions. Their goal is to create a fully operational spaceport capable of supporting commercial satellite launches, suborbital and atmospheric research, and potentially orbital launches. The consortium has been working with NAV Portugal to define the guidelines for a future spaceport.
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The PwC-led consortium includes HyPrSpace, Andøya Spaceport, Argotec, Atlantic Spaceport Consortium, IDS Corporation, and Arctic Space.
The Atlantic Spaceport Consortium operates a spaceport on Santa Maria Island in the Azores archipelago.
The Atlantic Spaceport Consortium was founded in 2019 to establish a commercial launch base on Santa Maria Island, located 1,500 kilometers from the Portuguese coast.
The National Communications Authority (Anacom) granted the Atlantic Spaceport Consortium a five-year license to construct and operate the launch base in August 2025.
The contract between Innospace and the Atlantic Spaceport Consortium was signed online on January 8.
Innospace has contracted the Atlantic Spaceport Consortium as its European launch partner.
Innospace has signed an agreement with the Atlantic Spaceport Consortium to conduct flights of its Hanbit rocket family from the Malbusca Spaceport on the Portuguese island of Santa Maria.
The Atlantic Spaceport Consortium's licence to operate the facility is valid for a period of five years.
Portugal’s Autoridade Nacional de Comunicações granted the Atlantic Spaceport Consortium a licence to build and operate the facility in August 2025.
The Atlantic Spaceport Consortium was founded in 2019 to establish a commercial launch facility on the island of Santa Maria.
The agreement with the Atlantic Spaceport Consortium helps accelerate the development of safe, sustainable, and regulated orbital launch services from the Azores.
In July 2025, the Atlantic Spaceport Consortium signed an agreement with Polish suborbital launch services provider SpaceForest for a single flight of its Perun rocket, expected to take place in 2026.
SpaceForest signed an agreement with the Atlantic Spaceport Consortium to conduct a flight of PERUN in the first half of 2026.
The Atlantic Spaceport Consortium, operating from the Azores, Portugal, will lead the Portuguese component of the Responsive Microlauncher Service and will demonstrate operational feasibility including development and deployment of required infrastructure elements.