Due: July 9, 2026

AI is reshaping space-based communications, especially as defense, commercial, and space stakeholders prioritize resilience, autonomy, and reliable communications across dynamic and disrupted environments.

AI x SatCom Launch Vehicle will identify and accelerate the most promising AI-enabled, space-based communications technologies operating across proliferated and hybrid architectures and connect them directly to the stakeholders shaping next-generation communications systems.

Enter a curated, multi-stage validation and acceleration program focused on AI-enabled space communications systems that will:

• Identify high-potential, mission-relevant technologies
• Evaluate and filter them through expert review
• Showcase top solutions at the Defense TechConnect Innovation Summit
• Extend engagement through a post-event Launch Vehicle cohort