The 2026 Flight Software Workshop presentation schedule is posted here. We look forward to all the technical presentations. flightsoftware.org/workshop/FSW...
The 2026 Flight Software Workshop presentation schedule is posted here. We look forward to all the technical presentations. flightsoftware.org/workshop/FSW...
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
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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:
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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 β 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 βMaking Penguins Flyβ at the 2025 Flight Software Workshop!