2025 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium

https://www.2025.ieeeigarss.org/

The 45th IGARSS, under the theme, “One Earth,” will discuss threats to the Earth and promote collaborative global solutions using remote sensing technology. $5-1,150. Brisbane, Australia. August 3-8, 2025.

39th Annual Small Satellite Conference: Reaching New Horizons

https://smallsat.org/2025/

Forum for the small satellite community to review recent successes, introduce emerging technologies and tackle key challenges and opportunities. This year features the same amount of content in a compressed three-day schedule with no weekend sessions, and a new expanded venue. $350-$1000. Salt Lake City, UT. August 11-13, 2025.

4th New Horizons Summit

https://www.nssa.com.au/new-horizons-summit-2025

APAC forum for sustainable and self-sufficient space exploration to share unique insights from the world’s best in aerospace, robotics, energy, and more. AUD 370-416. Sydney, Australia. August 14-15, 2025.

S4: Seattle Space Superiority Summit

https://lu.ma/ixyny4go

The inaugural Seattle Space Superiority Summit is dedicated to spotlighting the Greater Seattle Area where an estimated 90%+ of US satellites launched in 2024 were designed and built. Panels will include the future of launch, satellite constellation applications and space infrastructure, featuring founders such as Stoke Space Co-Founder Andy Lapsa, Interlune Co-Founder and former Blue Origin President Rob Meyerson, and Portal Space Systems Co-Founder and former SpaceX SVP of Propulsion Jeff Thornburg. Free. Tukwila, WA. September 11, 2025.

World Space Business Week Space Defense & Security Summit

https://wsbw.com/

Join global decision-makers for discussions around the theme, “Forging Frontiers: Uniting Leaders, Shaping Space Security Tomorrow” with the aim of fostering critical discussions on space defense, security, and international cooperation. Paris, France. September 15-19, 2025.

26th AMOS Conference

https://amostech.com/

The Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies (AMOS) Conference is a technical conference for space situational awareness/space domain awareness, bringing together experts and decision makers from private, government, and academic sectors for dialogue and international collaboration within the SSA/SDA community. Maui, Hawaiʻi. September 16-19, 2025.

SatCamp

https://satcamp.xyz/

SatCamp's geospatial event focuses on meaningful connection in a non-traditional setting and collaboration around the big issues and opportunities of technological innovation and disruption, generative AI, and climate change mitigation and adaptation. $410. Scholarships available. Boulder, Colorado. September 24-26, 2025.

76th International Astronautical Congress

https://www.iac2025.org/

Discuss advancements, trends and academic works, and access industry connections and partnership opportunities. Plenary and technical sessions will feature research papers and technical tours showcasing regional space industries. €120-1500. Sydney, Australia. September 29-October 3, 2025.

Space Software Summit

https://www.spacesoftwaresummit.com/

Space Software Summit will focus on exploring the latest in aerospace software, featuring sessions on open source software, flight and ground software, AI and test automation, and an add-on workshop day. Ticket sales open May 16th. Boulder CO. October 6-8, 2025.

Indo-Pacific Robotics, Autonomy, AI and Cyber Conference and Exhibition (IPRAAC)

https://www.iac2025.org/adjacent-event/indo-pacific-robotics-autonomy-ai-and-cyber-conference-and-exhibition-ipraac/

Government, industry, and academic participants in robotics, autonomy, AI and cyber technology gather for cross-sector opportunities at this conference and exhibition designed to foster business opportunities and collaboration around space, mining, energy, agriculture, defense, and advanced manufacturing. $329-2,299. Perth, Australia. October 7-8, 2025.

2025 Mars Society Convention

https://www.marssociety.org/news/2025/02/28/join-the-journey-2025-intl-mars-society-convention-mars-the-time-has-come/

The 28th convention centers on the theme, “Mars: The Time Has Come!” as a human mission to Mars solidifies as the central goal of America’s space program. Learn with experts and enjoy a live MarsVR platform demo for a look at how democratizing space exploration could allow millions to explore Mars alongside robots and astronauts. Abstracts due June 27, 2025. In-person and virtual. Los Angeles, CA. October 9-11, 2025.

WaterCube - Join the Mission: a thruster in space

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/watercubespace/watercube-join-the-mission-a-thruster-in-space

Support Capsule Corporation’s WaterCube thruster, an eco-friendly and scalable propulsion system designed for small satellites to make space exploration cleaner, smarter, and more accessible. Ends August 5, 2025.

Ejection Mechanism Design for the SPEED Test Architecture

https://grabcad.com/challenges/ejection-mechanism-design-for-the-speed-test-architecture

NASA is calling on interested GrabCAD members to help develop an ejection system that will introduce test models into supersonic flow. The Stratospheric Projectile Entry Experiment on Dynamics (SPEED) will help bridge a capability gap in free-flight dynamic stability for reentry vehicles. A successful outcome is a credible 3D model of a separation mechanism that is both cost-effective utilizing easy to manufacture methods and Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) parts and does not rely on high-energy systems. Deadline: September 8, 2025.

Back to the Moon

https://www.herox.com/BackToTheMoon

Teams are invited to submit proposals for innovative ideas around helping NASA overcome obstacles such as large cargo shipments, lunar mining, protection against lunar dust, radiation, and extreme temperatures. Must be a US citizen to qualify for cash prizes. Deadline: September 29, 2025.

2025 NASA Space Apps Challenge

https://www.spaceappschallenge.org/

The largest global hackathon for coders, scientists, designers and innovators is a collaborative community with a desire to explore through the creative use of science and technology. All ages, skill levels, and professional backgrounds are welcome. The platform offers free and open data access from NASA and its Space Agency Partners to address NASA expert challenges with topics from storytelling to astrophysics and space exploration. October 4-5, 2025.

Rock and Roll with NASA Challenge

https://www.herox.com/NASARockandRoll

NASA invites the global innovation community to design and test a lightweight, flexible, long service-life wheel and tire for Moon rover sustained surface operations using the MicroChariot Rover as a testbed. Currently in Pre-registration.

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Firefly Aerospace sets IPO range that would value rocket maker at $5.5 billion

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/28/firefly-aerospace-ipo-space.html

Firefly Aerospace filed for a U.S. IPO and plans to offer 16.2 million shares at $35‑$39 each, raising up to $631.8 million and targeting a $5.5 billion valuation.
The company reported an over sixfold jump in quarterly revenue from $8.3 million a year ago to $55.9 million, a quarterly loss of over $60 million, and a $1.1 billion contract backlog.

Hadrian raises $260M to build out automated factories for space and defense parts

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/17/hadrian-raises-260m-to-build-out-automated-factories-for-space-and-defense-parts/

Automated manufacturing startup Hadrian raised a $260 million round to build out its new “Factory 3” Arizona facility. The Series C round was led by Founders Fund, Lux Capital and Morgan Stanley, with participation from A16z and others. Hadrian is targeting high-precision CNC machining as well as welding, casting, additive, and other processes. The company will also produce maritime and munitions-specific parts as part of the call to modernize American manufacturing.

Space startup iRocket to go public via $400 million SPAC deal

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/23/space-startup-irocket-to-go-public-via-400-million-spac-deal.html

Reusable rocket developer Innovative Rocket Technologies (iRocket) plans to go public through a $400 million merger with Wilbur Ross sponsored special purpose acquisition company BPGC Acquisition. There have been 58 filings for SPAC IPOs on U.S. exchanges thus far in 2025.

York to expand services from space to ground via ATLAS acquisition

https://www.defensenews.com/space/2025/07/18/york-to-expand-services-from-space-to-ground-via-atlas-acquisition/

Government and commercial small satellite builder York Space Systems is acquiring ground software provider ATLAS Space Operations. The deal will improve output of their contracted 136 satellites for the Space Development Agency’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture mega constellation.

Auriga Space raises $6M to shoot rockets off an electromagnetic launch track

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/auriga-space-raises-6m-to-shoot-rockets-off-an-electromagnetic-launch-track/

California-based startup Auriga Space raised a $4.6 million seed round earlier this year along with $1.4 million in new AFWERX and SpaceWERX contracts. The round was led by European firm OTB Ventures, with participation from Trucks Venture Capital and Seraphim Space. Auriga is developing a rapidly reusable launch track that electrically powers magnets that can accelerate a small rocket.

This 19-year-old’s space company just raised millions to keep satellites connected 24/7

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/11/yc-backed-apolink-by-19-year-old-bags-4-3m-to-build-24-7-connectivity-for-leo-satellites/

Y Combinator-backed space-tech startup Apolink, formerly Bifrost Orbital, raised $4.3 million in a seed round at a $45 million post-money valuation to build a real-time connectivity network for LEO satellites that won’t go offline in dead zones. Founder Onkar Singh Batra says Apolink will solve interoperability and non-compliance issues other inter-satellite links (ISLs) face using their hybrid-RF optical architecture and hardware-independent approach.

SpaceX plans Starship program for in-orbit drug research

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-07-15/spacex-plans-starship-program-for-in-orbit-drug-research

SpaceX is developing a Starfall program which aims to use Starship and take advantage of micro-gravity and higher levels of radiation in space to enable higher purity manufacturing of pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, food and cosmetics. Starfall also has potential defense applications and SpaceX is working with the military on the program. SpaceX plans to launch Starfall possibly by the end of the decade.

Artemis III Orion crew module in the Operations and Checkout Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Image Credits: NASA Johnson Space Center / NASA/Rad Sinyak

Lockheed Martin weighs selling Orion flights as a service

https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/lockheed-martin-weighs-selling-orion-flights-as-a-service/

Lockheed Martin is exploring the idea of selling deep-space flights in Orion capsules as “fixed-price commercial services,” citing Axiom Space’s private flights to the ISS. Key to this shift is increasing production volume and reducing cost per flight. Lockheed aims to drive sustainability through "aggressive reusability", with capsules increasingly refurbished and reflown.

Clean room technicians move a full-scale Engineering Development Unit Telescope for the LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) mission at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Image Credits: NASA/Dennis Henry

Construction of ESA’s ambitious LISA mission begins

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/LISA/Construction_of_ESA_s_ambitious_LISA_mission_begins

The European Space Agency (ESA) and OHB System AG signed an agreement to build ESA's Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). The triple-spacecraft mission will be the first space-based observatory to study gravitational waves caused by the most powerful events in the universe, such as pairs of supermassive black holes colliding. LISA will capture gravitational waves of lower frequencies, associated with the merger of very massive objects, than is possible from Earth. Launch is planned for 2035 on an Ariane 6 rocket.