Up/Link Summit Brings Together Space Industry Leaders

NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, October 7, 2026 /CourierPR/ -- The SpaceTech Business Summit, organized by Up/Link, will bring together 200 founders, investors, executives, and government leaders in New York on October 20-21 for two days of sessions, investor briefings, and networking. The summit aims to address a defining question for the space economy: how do promising technologies become businesses with customers, financing, and a path to scale?

Private investment in space has doubled so far this year, reaching $23 billion. This growth is largely attributed to the SpaceX IPO in June, which has reinvigorated market sentiment and attracted new investors. The summit, held at the AWS Executive Briefing Center in Midtown Manhattan, is organized around two themes. The first day focuses on capital formation, including the financial infrastructure space companies need as they grow. The second day turns to commercial adoption, exploring who is buying space technology, how defense work can lead to broader markets, and where manufacturing, data, and other applications could create value on Earth.

The program features leaders from space companies including Redwire, Interlune, Sidus Space, SkyFi, Sophia Space, and Lockheed Martin Ventures, alongside voices from the ISS National Laboratory, NYSE, J.P. Morgan, Fidelity Investments, U.S. Space Force SpaceWERX, and the UK Space Agency. Companies represented among summit attendees also include Kepler Communications, Paragon Space Development, and Agile Space Industries.

Two sessions illustrate how far the commercial conversation has moved beyond launches. In "Made in Space," Redwire’s SpaceMD and other companies will discuss research and manufacturing in low gravity, including work on pharmaceutical compounds with potential uses on Earth. In "Not Your Parents' Moonshot," Interlune co-founder Rob Meyerson will discuss the company’s plans to harvest helium-3 from the Moon for terrestrial markets. Other sessions will examine institutional investment, space-based computing, and the growing customer base for satellite data.

Alongside the program, Up/Link will facilitate curated one-to-one meetings intended to help participants identify partners, customers, and investment opportunities.

The summit opens with a by-invitation VIP reception on October 19 at Sheppard’s offices at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Up/Link: The SpaceTech Business Summit is an invitation-only forum connecting the people building, financing, and buying the space economy. The inaugural summit takes place October 20-21, 2026, in New York City. Learn more at uplinksummit.com.