Join us 18–20 May 2027 to access inspiring sessions and premium content, develop valuable business leads, and make meaningful connections. More details on ASCEND 2027 will be available soon.
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ASCEND 2026
Join us 19–21 May 2026 to access inspiring sessions and premium content, develop valuable business leads, and make meaningful connections. More details on 2026 ASCEND will be available soon.
2025 ASCEND (Accelerating Space Commerce, Exploration, and New Discovery)
Join us 22–24 July 2025 to access inspiring sessions and premium content, develop valuable business leads, and make meaningful connections. More details on 2025 ASCEND will be available soon.
ASCENDxWebinar: Accelerating Pathways to Space
We’re talkin’ “eat-my-cosmic-dust” orders of magnitude fast.
Strap in with ASCEND and guest experts from Axiom, NASA, and the Fusion Industry Association for a three-hour crash course in how fundamental systems are being transformed fast to help humans adapt to life in space.
Learn the latest about laser-accelerated data communications, the soon-to-be reality of infinitely renewable clean energy, and the engineering of machines and methods to capitalize on these revolutionary advances and rapidly scale up the LEO infrastructure needed to supply and sustain our off-world future.
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Summit Agenda
This three-and-a-half hour program will include two webinars and a panel discussion.
Who Should Attend?
ASCEND is building on-ramps to space for everyone. No matter where you’re headed in the off-world future, this ASCENDxSummit will get you there faster.
How Does it Work?
The Summit is a three-and-a-half hour program presented entirely online.
What Will You Learn?
How extraordinary advances in energy, data and infrastructure engineering will enable humans to build, work and live in space.
*This ASCENDxSummit is FREE to attend. As the Summit date nears, we’ll send you instructions to log on
2021 ASCEND (Accelerating Space Commerce, Exploration, and New Discovery)
Event: ASCEND
Date: 8–17 November 2021
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada & ONLINE
Official Website: ascend.events
Call for Content: Call for Content
Accelerating Space Commerce, Exploration, and New Discovery
Building a sustainable off-world future requires the collective effort of a diverse global community of students and professionals with the ideas, skills and passions to solve complex problems and inspire new ways of thinking. That’s why more than 3,000 technical experts, executives, entrepreneurs, and engineers — from classrooms through careers — attended the inaugural 2020 ASCEND last November. Plan now to join us for the 2021 edition. The universe is expanding, and ASCEND is your space.
ASCENDxSummit: Accelerating the Next-Generation Workforce
The space economy is booming. Let’s get to work!
Who’s now? Who’s next? ASCEND is helping to build the most technically, intellectually, professionally, and culturally diverse workforce pipeline on the planet!
This three-session FREE ASCENDxSummit will bring together futurists, educators, and motivators from classrooms through careers to address current needs and future opportunities for EVERYONE to succeed in space.
Looking to make your mark in the universe?
ASCENDxTexas: Accelerating the Business of Space Exploration
Join us in Houston for ASCENDxTexas, a new event designed to grow the Texas Space Ecosystem and our off-world future. In our first ASCEND event of 2022, we are excited to be working with our partners to bring the Texas space community together.
Gain clarity on the lunar exploration market – supply, demand, materials, current status, and future opportunities.
DISCOVER opportunities approaches, and investments for space exploration and where your business fits within this ecosystem.
EXPLORE commercialization efforts and the needed support and dialogue to move forward in the next 10 years
LEARN how NASA is evolving its approach to industry by simplifying the “how” and delivery of business engagements and recasting the feedback loop to enable faster outcomes.
IDENTIFY technology gaps and complexity, and how to address these gaps with novel or emerging techniques.
Attendees will gain in-depth insights about Artemis and NASA’s other signature programs, and how these programs may serve as the anchor customer for future commercial missions to LEO, the moon, Mars, and beyond. Meet other companies based in Texas and learn how they’re accelerating our progress toward an off-world future.
Powered by AIAA, ASCEND, which stands for Accelerating Space Commerce, Exploration, and New Discovery, is the world’s premier collaborative, outcomes-driven, interdisciplinary community designed to accelerate the building of our off-world future.
Throughout the year, the ASCENDx Series accelerates momentum toward the fall ASCEND apex event. ASCENDxTexas is an open summit bringing together a broad community of stakeholders from NASA, industry, academia, government and other stakeholders to help build connections into partnerships, and engage in continuous discussions related to strategy building, development, and implementation of human and robotic lunar exploration. This event will focus on impactful outcomes and identifying opportunities holistically as a mission rather than a solution.
2022 ASCEND (Accelerating Space Commerce, Exploration, and New Discovery)
Event: ASCEND
Date: 24–26 October 2022
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada & Online
Official Website: ascend.events

Accelerating Space Commerce, Exploration, and New Discovery
Building a sustainable off-world future requires the collective effort of a diverse global community of students and professionals with the ideas, skills and passions to solve complex problems and inspire new ways of thinking. That’s why more than 3,000 technical experts, executives, entrepreneurs, and engineers — from classrooms through careers — attended the inaugural 2020 ASCEND in November 2020. Plan now to join us for the 2022 edition. The universe is expanding, and ASCEND is your space.
ASCENDxSummit: Attracting Investors to Your Space
Sometimes you follow the money. Sometimes the money follows you.
Whether you’re a start-up or a shooting star, this exclusive multi-session online event will accelerate your progress toward securing the funds you need and the financial partners you can trust to boost your prospects in space.
ASCENDxWebinar: Space Policy: The Road Ahead
Several critical space policy decisions are looming in the year ahead, regardless of election year changes in the Administration or Congress. The panel will explore these decisions – from NASA’s human lander program to orbital debris frameworks to Space Force stand-up – and how they could impact civil, commercial, and national security space for years to come.
Speakers:
- Moderator: Marcia Smith, Editor, Space Policy Online
- Mary Lynne Dittmar, President and CEO, Coalition for Deep Space Exploration
- Dan Dumbacher, Executive Director, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Mike French, Vice President of Civil Space, Aerospace Industries Association
- Eric Stallmer, President, Commercial Spaceflight Federation

