Past eventHeld October 5–7, 2026
Space Software Summit 2026
Billed as aerospace's first all-software conference, focused on engineering innovation across flight software, ground systems, DevOps, and security.
- Held
- October 5–7, 2026
- Location
- Westminster, Colorado
TL;DR
- Space Software Summit 2026 took place October 5–7 in Westminster, Colorado, and was aimed at aerospace software engineers, developers, managers, and executives.
- The conference was scheduled to cover AI, command and control systems, CI/CD practices, flight software frameworks, small-spacecraft LLMs, in-orbit refueling technology, and agentic spacecraft design.
- Speakers were scheduled to include engineers from BAE Systems, Poolside, Orbit Fab, SWRI, Keysight, and Sandia National Laboratories, plus contributors from SEE, Umbra, Kayhan Space, CU LASP, and Resolv.
About
Space Software Summit is organized by OpenC3, Inc., a company focused on aerospace command and control software. Billed as aerospace's first all-software conference, the summit was presented as an engineering conference exploring the latest innovation in aerospace software across all mission-critical domains.
Who was in the room
Flight Software Engineers
Engineers responsible for onboard command and control, autonomous systems, and spacecraft decision-making.
Ground Systems Developers
Developers building mission control systems, telemetry processing, and ground station infrastructure.
DevOps and Security Teams
Practitioners focused on CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and security practices in aerospace environments.
Engineering Managers and Executives
Decision-makers and technical leaders overseeing aerospace software development and deployment.
Public posts about this edition
3 postsQuoted word for word from public posts; each links to the original.
“A smaller, more intimate gathering than some of our recent dinners in LA, DC, and Nashville, but an incredible evening with a great group of space founders, customers, partners, and friends.”
Oliver Muoto
Read the post“Great to see our friends and QuestDB users OpenC3 at Space Software Summit 2026.”
Nicolas Hourcard, CFA, QuestDB
Read the post“Our team is in Westminster, CO this week for the Space Software Summit.”
Unibap Space Solutions
Read the post
Featured speakers
18 listedBarry Hamilton
Flight Software Framework Options · Red Canyon Software
Daniel Marquand
Small But Mighty: Deploying Open-Weight LLMs for Autonomous Decision-Making Aboard Small Spacecraft · Poolside
Jules Smith
Orbit Fab: Reusable, Reliable, Refueling · Orbit Fab
Jim Craft
The Agentic Spacecraft · BAE Systems
Jacob Kovarovic
Modernizing Legacy Laboratory Control Software for Satellite Instrument Calibration · SWRI
Sijia Qiu
The Sky Is Falling (with Data) · Keysight Technologies
Nick Gent
SEE
James Santucci
Umbra
Asaf Lewin
Sim Dot Space
Chris Oravetz
Verge Defense
Jacob Seman
CU LASP
Sean Nelson
Kayhan Space
Adam Baca
Sandia National Laboratories
Clay Ito
OpenC3
David Groenveld
Resolv
Collin Sinclair
KSAT
Meagan Thatcher
University of Central Florida
Jon Sparks
Decen Space
Partners on record
2 listedQuestions people ask
8 answeredSpace Software Summit 2026 took place October 5–7, 2026.
The conference was held in Westminster, Colorado.
The conference targeted aerospace software engineers, developers, managers, executives, and teams working in flight software, ground systems, DevOps, and security.
Topics were scheduled to include AI, onboard high-compute systems, command and control, CI/CD practices, flight software frameworks, small-spacecraft LLMs, reusable in-orbit refueling, and agentic spacecraft design.
Barry Hamilton was scheduled to present on flight software frameworks, Daniel Marquand on LLMs for spacecraft autonomy, Jules Smith on orbital refueling, and Jim Craft on agentic spacecraft.
OpenC3 and Odyssey Space Research sponsored Space Software Summit.
It was most useful for flight, ground and DevOps software engineers in aerospace who wanted software-only content, since the talks were scheduled to cover flight software frameworks, onboard LLMs and agentic spacecraft from speakers at BAE Systems, Sandia National Laboratories and Orbit Fab. Hardware-focused engineers and buyers seeking a broad space industry show would have gotten less from it, because the program was billed as an all-software engineering conference.
The organizer does not publish a dress code. Aerospace industry conferences typically follow smart-casual norms. Confirm expectations directly with the organizer.
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