2027 Flight Software Workshop

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in conjunction with The Aerospace Corporation, The Southwest Research Institute, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, are hosting the 20th Annual Workshop on Spacecraft Flight Software. The workshop will take place on the Caltech campus in Pasadena, California, from March 22–25, 2027.

In the last several years there has been a significant increase in the next generation of flight system architectures for space. Some of the advancements have been in multicore, soft-core, FPGA’s, space computers, operating systems, flight software and machine learning. This presents many opportunities in the space industry, as well as some significant challenges.

We are looking forward to another great year of in-depth technical presentations of relevance to all Flight Software engineers. The general themes for FSW-27 are:

• Novel FSW capabilities from current or recent missions
• High performance computing in space and hardware acceleration
• Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and onboard data processing
• DevOps, continuous integration, and automated testing
• Space networking
• Flight software architectures, open-source software, frameworks, and software buses
• Digital twin, configuration management, and software enabled emulation
• Resiliency and safety
• Onboard cryptography, cybersecurity, and encryption
• Operating systems for FSW and spaceflight
• New languages (bring your non-C work)
• Your hot FSW topic we haven’t listed!

We would like to encourage the community to get hands-on at FSW Workshop 2027! While we will continue our presentation tracks, we recommend considering submitting your hardware and software demonstration, as well as your workshop ideas.

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