Cross-cutting Technologies
ASCEND brings together innovators, engineers, and decision-makers to advance cutting-edge technologies that support space missions and strengthen both space-based and ground infrastructure. Explore cross-cutting technologies, capabilities, architectures, platforms, tools, and cross-sector innovations, that enable safe, resilient, satellite activities and sustained human and robotic presence in space.
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Looking Ahead
CROSS-CUTTING TECHNOLOGIES
Space missions increasingly depend on foundational technologies that cut across disciplines, domains, and mission types. From autonomy and propulsion to materials and digital engineering, advances in these areas don’t stay contained to a single program — they raise the capability of everything built on top of them.
ASCEND explores the technologies and engineering approaches shaping every domain of space activity, including:
- Astrodynamics and space environments
- Autonomy
- Avionics and flight software
- Guidance, navigation, and control
- Launch, transportation, and entry systems
- Materials and structures
- Payloads, sensors, and information fusion
- Power, propulsion, and thermal systems
- Digital engineering and systems modeling
- Small satellite technologies
- And much more
Join the engineers, technologists, and program leaders defining the capabilities that every future mission will be built on.
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