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Join your peers in Las Vegas at the world’s premier outcomes-focused, interdisciplinary space event designed to build our off-world future – faster.
ASCEND connects the civil, commercial, and national security space sectors, along with adjacent industries, to embrace the opportunities and address the challenges that come with increased activity in space. Building our sustainable off-world future requires long-term thinking. Strategic planning, innovation, scientific exploration, and effective regulations and standards will help us preserve space for future generations. ASCEND will enable the technical exchanges, debates, and collaboration that will help forge a sustainable off-world future for all.
Call for content for 2025 ASCEND has closed. If you submitted a technical paper or session proposal, you can manage your submission(s) here .
Building Our Sustainable Off-World Future
Science & Exploration
Make great leaps in space technology and other scientific frontiers.
Human Spaceflight
Support the next wave of human space exploration.
Security & Protection
Explore mission cybersecurity, policy partnerships, detection, and new technologies.
Space Economy
Shape the future of space commerce.
Technology Development & Infrastructure
Develop new enabling technologies and support space and terrestrial Infrastructure.
Policy, Law & Governance
Develop new space policy, new legal frameworks, and establish new space governance models.
Space & Society
Consider the human element and the societal impact of space endeavors.
2025 ASCEND RECAP
You have an all-access ticket to attend the sessions of your choice from these two signature events. Both events will deliver full technical programs, a hallmark that attendees count on from AIAA.
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1,500+ of the international space community’s best and brightest are gathering in Las Vegas for 2025 ASCEND. Connect with industry leaders, explore emerging trends and technologies, recruit top talent, and more.
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