In 2022, the GLEX Summit ignition opening session launched the event in Lisbon looking at what’s new in space 500 years after Magallean circumnavigation, but also what’s ahead in the future of the space economy and its commercialization. In the following days, the summit was held in São Miguel island (Azores) in a journey through conservation projects and scientific missions from the deep bottom of the oceans to extraterrestrial volcanoes, and even the disruptive resurrection of the mammoth.