See you later space island is a work that makes use of speculative fiction to re-imagine possible futures and cosmologies from the island of Santa Maria, where the construction of the first European space base for launching rockets and microsatellites is planned. Set in a fictional future where the first satellites are already being launched from the island, the film follows the reunion of two friends when one of them, an astrophysicist scientist, returns to Santa Maria to work at an astronomical observatory. Upon arrival, she is faced with the rapid changes witnessed by the island’s human and non-human inhabitants. Between their geological ancestry and the immensity of celestial space, the two friends reconcile different views and experiences regarding space exploration projects from Santa Maria. From the island to the universe, the project proposes a reflection on space and expansion, and the forms and practices with which territories, ideas and bodies are observed and occupied.