The Satellites Monitor Station of ESA (European Spatial Agency) in Santa Maria Island will officially open on January 17th, 2008. A small step for Europe, a huge step for Azores, that turned this project into the cradle of a policy, clearly oriented to the development of top technologies. An idea which, in the opinion of José Contente (Regional Secretary of Housing and Equipment), has already largely contributed for Azores to be faced, not as an ultra periferical region of Europe, but as the center of the Atlantic Ocean…