Flight Software Workshop

Registration is now OPEN for the 2027 Flight Software Workshop! The workshop will take place on the Caltech campus in Pasadena, California, from March 22–25, 2027. We are looking forward to another great year of technical presentations of relevance to all FSW engineers. flightsoftware.org

Calling for abstracts for the 2027 FSW Workshop! Abstract submissions are due Dec 4, 2026. We look forward to your presentation, demo, or panel ideas.

Save the date! Announcing the 2027 Flight Software Workshop. Location: Ramo Auditorium, CalTech, Pasadena, CA Host: The Jet Propulsion Laboratory Dates: March 22, 2027 to March 25, 2027 flightsoftware.org

Group photo from the Flight Software Workshop 2026 conference.

Videos of all presentations from Flight Software Workshop 26 are now available youtube.com/playlist?lis... . Slides are here: flightsoftware.org/workshop/FSW20

On behalf of the Flight Software Workshop 2026 Organizing Committee, we thank you for attending and making the workshop a great place to learn and exchange ideas.

Dr. Rebecca Lowe of George Mason University presents "KEYNOTE | What is the philosophy of space and why is it so important?"

Rich Landau of JHU/APL @jhuapl.bsky.social presents "A Code First Approach to Space Network Management with Rust"

"Nicolás E. Horro Matias Pinedo of INVAP S.E., Argentina presents ""Flight Software Under Constraints: Lessons from SAOCOM and the Evolution of Argentina’s Onboard Software Capability"""

Henry Haswell (Virtual) of SwRI presents "Microsegmentation of Core Flight System (cFS) to Secure Satellite Busses"

Zimri Leisher @3lambda.bsky.social of University of Michigan presents "Fpy: An Advanced Sequencing Language for F Prime"

Joseba Vara Murillo of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Spain presents "DEMO | Integration of Simulink-Generated Systems with NASA’s cFS"

Welcome to Day 4 and the last day of the 2026 FSW Workshop!

Ashok Prajapati of NASA-GSFC presents "The NASA cFS 2.0 and Beyond"

Dave Gibson of STAR-Dundee, UK presents "Ultra-Fast, Low-Overhead SpaceFibre Communication for System-on-Chips"

Starla Talbot of RocketLab presents "Sponsor | Deep Space on a budget – adapting commercial avionics and FSW for NASA’s twin ESCAPDE spacecraft". Thank you for being a 2026 sponsor!

Maia Herrington of Stoke Space @stokespacetech.bsky.social presents "Lessons learned from writing rocket firmware in Rust"

Lior Attias (Virtual) of NASA-JPL presents "Encrypting Spacecraft Communications: Modular Implementation of Uplink and Downlink Encryption in JPL’s F Prime Fight Software Framework"

Filip Markovic / Irfan Sljivo of University of Southampton/ NASA- Ames presents "LiME: Real-Time Modeling On Linux Made Easy"

Dr. Dylan Pfeifer of CesiumAstro presents "Lessons Learned in a Microservices Message Passing Architecture for CesiumAstro Flight Software"

Sam Yu of Lothan Space presents "Lightweight Multi-Sensor Fusion for Autonomous Lunar Rover Navigation on Embedded Hardware"

Marius Neuhalfen of Blackswan Space presents "DEMO | Developing Effective Data Generation Strategies for Vision-Based Navigation using the Mission Design Simulator (MDS)"

Our technical chairs do a tremendous amount of work ahead of the workshop, and continue that during the workshop! They definitely earned a little casual disassociation ;) (@robertsmk.bsky.social actually looking at the screen on the opposite wall)

Kevin Sears of JHU/APL @jhuapl.bsky.social presents "A Sky Full Of Stars – Porting Synthetic Tracking to Onboard GPUs"

It's not all technical lectures! We have lots of fun here at the FSW Workshop too! Catching up with old friends, meeting new friends, good food, raffles and trivia night!

Dr. Joel Sherrill @joelsherrill.bsky.social of OAR presents "Sponsor | RTEMS State of the Solar System"

Dr Pablo Ghiglino of Klepsydra,Switzerland presents " DEMO | From ONNX File to Space-Grade Multi-Core AI on RTEMS6: A Practical Demonstration"

Jonathan Famous of Lockheed presents "In-Flight Demonstrations on a Small Satellite"

Andrei Oganessian of ESA, Netherlands presents "Challenges Of Gateway's Lunar Link and Use of cFS – balancing SW reusability with performance needs"

Gene opens Flight Software Workshop 26 Day 3.

Allen Taylor of Candensys Aerospace Corporation presents "The Asp Scripting Platform for Embedded Systems"

Daniel Hellström, Matteo Concas of FrontGrade Gaisler present "Sponsor | GR765 Software Ecosystem Updates"

Ana Huaman Quispe of Traclabs presents "DRAGOMAN - Tools to exchange information between XTCE and ROS2"

Douglas Franz of MyRadar presents "Onboard Autonomous Computing to Enable Orbital Detection of Hazards"

Chris Williams and Michael Lemasters of NASA IV&V present " DEMO | Transforming Independent Verification and Validation with AI Assisted Flight Software Analysis"

Cindy Oda, Stephanie Contreras, Bevin Duckett of NASA-JPL present "Innovations in Automation, Tools, and Processes for Europa Clipper Flight Software"

George Williams of Armijo Innovations presents "Embedded AI Agents For Flight Systems"

Matt Rhodes of @mathworks.bsky.social presents, "Sponsor | MathWorks, In a world where code is cheap, trust is expensive: engineering trust and confidence at scale". Thank you for being a 2026 sponsor!

Dr. Leonidas Kosmidis of Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) presents "Post Quantum Cryptography for RISC-V Space Systems"

Sascha Wise of Stoke Space @stokespacetech.bsky.social presents "DEMO | NixOS in Space and on the Ground"

Kushal Gupta of RedHat presents "Edge AI Inferencing: A Comparison of llama.cpp and vLLM"

Alessandro Lovesio of Argotec, Italy presents "HENON’s Autonomous Flight Software for Deep Space Maneuvering and Real-Time Space Weather Alerting"