42nd Space Symposium

The Space Symposium, run by the Space Foundation at The Broadmoor and Cheyenne Mountain Resort in Colorado Springs, is the principal annual convening of the global space enterprise; the 40th edition drew over 10,000 people from more than 40 countries. Attendees span civil space agencies, commercial operators and their subcontractors, military, national security and intelligence organisations, cybersecurity firms, research centres and space entrepreneurs, across three exhibit halls and a multi-track programme on policy, programmes and technology. Agency leadership and prime contractors use it to announce programme direction, which makes it the fastest way for a startup to understand where government demand is heading. For space and defense-adjacent founders and their investors it is the highest-signal customer and partnership event of the year.