Announcing keynote speakers for Flight Software Workshop 2026. Dr. Rebecca Lowe is Philosophy Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. She also writes regularly on space, and recently was a Consulting Space Philosopher. She publishes endsdontjustifythemeans.com

Announcing keynote speakers for Flight Software Workshop 2026. Manuel Maldonado worked as the Roman Space Telescope @nasaromantelescope.bsky.social Software Systems Engineer. He was Software Systems Engineer on ICESat-2 and was Chief Engineer of the Software Engineering Division at NASA Goddard.

Announcing keynote speakers for Flight Software Workshop 2026. Dr. Elizabeth (Zibi) Turtle is a planetary scientist at @jhuapl.bsky.social. She is the Principal Investigator for the Dragonfly mission to Titan and for the EIS cameras on the Europa Clipper. dragonfly.jhuapl.edu

Announcing keynote speakers for Flight Software Workshop 2026. Scott Manley. Scientist, astrophysicist, programmer, and YouTube star, Scott is known for his space-themed YouTube channel where he teaches the science & math behind rocket science. @scottmanley.bsky.social www.youtube.com/@scottmanley

The abstract submission deadline for the 2026 Flight Software Workshop is now extended to December 15th, 2025. We hope to see your submission, and we look forward to the conference presentations. flightsoftware.org/workshop/FSW...

Abstract submissions for the 2026 Workshop on Spacecraft Flight Software are due Dec 4, 2025. We look forward to your presentation, demo, or panel ideas. flightsoftware.org/workshop/FSW...

Registration is now open for the 2026 Flight Software Workshop, which will be in person at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland. Both in-person attendance and remote viewing is available. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-fligh...

We are pleased to announce the 2026 Flight Software Workshop, which will be in person at @jhuapl.bsky.social . Save the date and join us March 23, 2026 to March 26, 2026 for a week of flight software discussion. We are now accepting abstracts. flightsoftware.org/workshop/FSW...

2025 Flight Software Workshop Feedback Thank you to those that attended the 2025 FSW Workshop. Please take a couple of minutes to provide your feedback; it would help us improve our future workshops. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The 2025 Flight Software Workshop recordings are now on YouTube! The FSW-25 presentation recordings are up on our YouTube channel! Check out the entire playlist here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Derek Johnson from Rocket Lab and "Lessons Learned from the Lunar Surface: Adapting Satellite FSW to Lunar Missions" at the 2025 Flight Software Workshop!

Campbell Ong from The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory ( @jhuapl.bsky.social ) and "Testbed Software: The Glue to Early FSW Testing and Hardware Integration" at the 2025 Flight Software Workshop!

Minoru Maeda from Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and "Preliminary experiments for automatic software updates in software-defined satellites" at the 2025 Flight Software Workshop!

Fabrizio Bernardini & Davide Palombi from British Interplanetary Society virtually present "General Purpose Spacecraft Simulator – an educational and research tool" at the 2025 Flight Software Workshop!

Brian Kempa, Ph.D. from NASA Ames Research Center and "Flight Software Fruit Salad: Platform interoperability in flight with containers" at the 2025 Flight Software Workshop

Our final Keynote Speaker Casey Dreier ( @caseydreier.bsky.social ) from The Planetary Society ( @planetarysociety.bsky.social ) and "Policy Values of a Public Space Agency" at the 2025 Flight Software Workshop!

Starting off the final day of the 2025 Flight Software Workshop!

Robert Klar and Paul Wood from Southwest Research Institute and "Leveraging Existing Flight Systems to Achieve TRL Level 6 for New Flight Software" at the 2025 Flight Software Workshop!

Jean-Pierre de la Croix from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and "Using OpenGL to speed up Multi-Rover Map Merging" at the 2025 Flight Software Workshop!

Davide Perico from Politecnico di Milano and "A modern Flight Software architecture for autonomous Guidance, Navigation, and Control" at the 2025 Flight Software Workshop!

Andoni Arregui from GTD GmbH and "Data Coverage Analysis for Human Rated Flight-Software" at the 2025 Flight Software Workshop!

Alessandro Lovesio from ARGOTEC and "Yet Another Flight Software Framework for SmallSat-based missions" at the 2025 Flight Software Workshop!

Bill Van Besien from The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory ( @jhuapl.bsky.social )and "The Multi-Mission Bundle Protocol Security Library" at the 2025 Flight Software Workshop!

Thank you to our sponsor STAR-Dundee and David Gibson and their presentation "SpaceWire and SpaceFibre 2025" at the 2025 Flight Software Workshop!

Victoria Da Poian from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and "Space Missions Software Development to Support Science Autonomy: Application to Mass Spectrometers for Future Missions to Mars and Titan" at the 2025 Flight Software Workshop!

Gina Fossati from The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory ( @jhuapl.bsky.social ) and "Dragonfly Emulation, Testing, and Continuous Integration" at the 2025 Flight Software Workshop

Alan Cohn from Software Engineering Institute | @Carnegie Mellon University ( @cmu.edu )and "Language and Safety: Why Language Choice Matters" at the 2025 Flight Software Workshop!

Matthew Weber from Boeing and Michael Monaghan from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (virtually) present “Making Penguins Fly” at the 2025 Flight Software Workshop!

Thank you to our sponsor Caltech ( @caltech.edu ) and Rick Hefner and their presentation on “Leveraging AI for Next-Gen Aviation Applications” at the 2025 Flight Software Workshop!

Joshua Sherbrooke from Stoke Space ( @stokespacetech.bsky.social ) and “One-Click Launch Autonomy” at the 2025 Flight Software Workshop!

Rodrigo de Marca França from Maua IT and “Space Instrument Virtualization, Development, and Validation Using Open-Source Tools” at the 2025 Flight Software Workshop!

Olman Quiros Jimenez from DLR (@dlr-en.bsky.social) and “libs3: A Novel Parameter Management System for Distributed Space Systems” at the 2025 Flight Software Workshop!

Our third keynote! Trevor Ashley from MIT Lincoln Laboratory and “Trustworthy Autonomy in the Age of AI: Foundations, Trends, and Guarantees” at the 2025 Flight Software Workshop!

Kicking off day 3 of the 2025 Flight Software Workshop!

Sterling Peet from Georgia Tech and “Rapid cFS App Generation Leveraging Template Tooling” at the 2025 Flight Software Workshop!

Rahul Vishnoi from University of Maryland College Park and the demo “Deep Learning at the Edge of Space” at the 2025 Flight Software Workshop!

Thank you to our sponsor Odyssey Space Research and their presentation “Commercial Class A - Taking Flight” at the 2025 Flight Software Workshop!

Peer Stritzinger from Peer Strintzsinger GmbH and the demo of “Adaptive Compute Mapping for Interplanetary Spacecraft: Managing Latency, Energy, and Data Persistence in Extreme Environments” at the 2025 Flight Software Workshop!

You can also find us on Threads (www.threads.net/@space_fsw), LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/in/flight-so...), Instagram (www.instagram.com/space_fsw/), and X/Twitter (x.com/FSWWorkshop) !

Pablo Ghiglino from Klepsydra Technologies and the demo of “AI/ML - Deploying Deep Neural Networks with Klepsydra AI: A step-by-step, end-to-end workshop” at the 2025 Flight Software Workshop!

Tony James and Michael Epley from Redhat and the demo of “Building Resilient Flight Software: Leveraging Open-Source Innovations for OS Modularity and Security” at the 2025 Flight Software Workshop!

Rick Hefner from @caltech.edu and “Career Workshop - Staying Current in Flight Software Engineering: Evolving Skills for a New Aerospace Landscape” at the 2025 Flight Software Workshop!

Our special panel on “Artificial Intelligence in Space Applications”, hosted by Steve Chien from NASA JPL, Pablo Giglino from Klepsydra Technologies, and Leonidas Kosmideos from Barcelona Supercomputing Center at the 2025 Flight Software Workshop!

Huge thank you to our student poster presenters and student clubs (Husky Satellite Lab and UW Formula Motorsports) for showing off their hard work during the 2025 Flight Software Workshop!

Kevin Burns from our sponsor MathWorks presented "Getting Rusty with Model-Based Design" at the 2025 Flight Software Workshop!

Steve Chien & Itai Zilberstein from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and "Rapid Multi-Mission Deployment of Convolutional Neural Network and Spectral Algorithm Flight Software" at the 2025 Flight Software Workshop!

Becca Bonham-Carter & Luis Chavier from Mission Control and "Testing Approaches for Machine Learning Payloads in Flight Software" at the 2025 Flight Software Workshop!

Eliott Peron from @cnes.fr and "TSP based Flight software for multi-agency missions" at the 2025 Flight Software Workshop!

Andrew Harris from @jhuapl.bsky.social and "An Introduction to SMT Solvers with Applicability to FSW Development" at the 2025 Flight Software Workshop!

Keynote Speaker David Cummings from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and "How We Diagnosed and Fixed the 2023 Voyager 1 Anomaly from 15 Billion Miles Away" at the 2025 Flight Software Workshop!