Space Events

What this directory is

It lists conferences, workshops, symposia, trade shows, competitions, courses and other gatherings across the space sector, worldwide. Each entry is one edition of an event — the 2027 meeting rather than the series — with its own dates, location and sources.

Entries are compiled from organizers’ own announcements and from other public listings, and are not all checked by hand. Where a fact is missing the entry says "Not stated" rather than guessing; that means it was not recorded, which is not the same as the organizer confirming there is none.

Most dates have not yet been confirmed against the organizer, even where no warning is shown beside them. Check the organizer’s page before you book travel.

Moving around

The row of buttons at the top of the directory is, in order: "Browse events", "Saved events", "Compare events", "Submit an event", "Promote an event", "Help" and "CC BY". Only the buttons this listing offers are shown.

"Browse events" takes you back to the directory as it first opened: its own search, filters, first page and the List view. If you arrived by a link that already carried filters, it goes back to that link instead. It works from anywhere, including your saved events and the comparison.

Finding events

Use the "Find an event" form at the top. The search box matches names, organizers and topics; press Search or Enter. "Dates" chooses a window, and "From" and "To" set your own. A "To" date earlier than "From" is refused and nothing is searched until you correct it.

The filter groups offered here are: Event type, Topic, Intended audience, Attendance mode, Country, World region, Event status, Registration, Space relevance, Language and Organizer. Every group is always open — the ones under "More filters" too — and there is nothing to expand or collapse. Within one group the values are alternatives; across groups they all have to be true. Press "Apply filters" to see the results.

A long group scrolls inside its own box. The bar on the right of each box shows where you are in its list: drag it, tap or click the bar, use the mouse wheel or trackpad, swipe the list, or use the keyboard. Tabbing to an option scrolls it into view. A bar with no handle means every option is already showing. The longer groups, such as Topic and Country, have a "Find" box that narrows the list to the options you type; ticked options always stay in view.

A group appears only when events in this listing record that detail. Price, Registration and Language, for example, are offered once events carry a price, registration status or language rather than "not stated".

The number beside each value is how many events match it now. A value you chose that matches nothing stays in the list, ticked, with a count of zero, so you can untick it. Combining filters can still leave nothing to show; when that happens the page says so and offers links that widen the search.

Every filter in force appears above the results as a chip you can remove, with "Clear all filters" beside them. Clearing filters leaves your display preferences as they are.

"Hide" at the top of the filters slides them away so the results use the full width; the "Show filters" tab on the left edge of the window brings them back, with everything you chose still in place.

"Expand", beside "Hide", spreads the filters across the whole directory above the results, with the groups side by side; "Shrink" puts them back in the column. Nothing you chose changes and the results are not reloaded. Hiding and showing the filters keeps whichever of the two you were using.

"Space relevance" starts with events dedicated to space and events with a space component; tick "Adjacent" to add events from neighbouring fields.

Reading the results

The "Viewing mode" menu above the results chooses List, Table or Calendar; List is where the directory starts. The page changes as soon as you pick one, or when you press "Show" if JavaScript is off, and your search and filters stay as they were. The table puts the same facts in sortable columns. The calendar shows one month at a time: use the arrows, "This month", or the Month menu to move, even through months with no events. It opens on the first month with a matching event. When a day has more events than fit, "+ more" takes you to that day’s own list.

Under each event, the organizer’s name, the location and the dates are links. The organizer shows every event by that organizer, the location every event in the same place, and the dates every event in that month. Each starts a fresh search, which you can widen again with "Clear all filters".

Warnings about dates — conflicting, postponed, rescheduled, canceled, month or year only, or dates to be announced — are written beside the dates in every view and in calendar downloads, not shown by color alone.

"Dates to be announced" is a separate group at the foot of the results, because those editions have no date to be sorted by.

Events under "Featured events" marked "Sponsored", and banner advertisements marked "Sponsored", are paid placements. "Editor’s pick" means an editor chose the event; nobody paid for it.

Conferences are taken out of the directory after they finish. Their old address then says the event was removed rather than showing a page for it.

What the buttons under an event do

"Event website" opens the address recorded for the event in a new tab. It is somebody else’s page.

"Details" opens the event’s own page here, with everything recorded about it, including its sourced ratings and audience figures.

"Add to calendar" offers Google Calendar, Outlook.com, Outlook for Microsoft 365 and an .ics file. The first three open a draft in that service, which may ask you to sign in; nothing is added until you save it there. The .ics file opens in Apple Calendar, Outlook for desktop and most other apps, and needs no account.

"Save" keeps the event in your saved events. "Compare" adds it to a comparison of up to four events.

"Correction" opens the correction form for that event.

"Promote" opens the promotion request form with that event already chosen.

The share symbol, last in the row, opens your device’s own share sheet with the event’s name, dates, place and its page on this site. It appears only where your browser can share this way.

Saved events, comparison and preferences

"Saved events", "Compare events" and "Display preferences" are at the top of the directory, with a count of what you have chosen, and again at the foot of the results.

Your saved events are kept in this browser, not with an account. Clearing this site’s data in your browser removes them.

Opening "Saved events" shows your saved list straight away, with none of the directory's search or filters applied; you can filter the saved list itself once it is open, and "Show all saved events" takes those filters off again. With nothing saved it says "You have no saved events." Use "Browse events" at the top to go back to the directory. An event that is taken out of the directory, such as a conference that has finished, drops out of your saved list.

To show a list kept in this browser, the page asks this site for those events by their identifiers, like any other page request; nothing else about you is attached and no other site is sent the list. Anyone using this browser profile sees the same list.

"Compare" under an event adds it to the comparison, and "Compare events" shows how many are chosen. With two or more chosen it opens the comparison itself, where each column has a Remove link and "Clear the comparison" starts again.

Display preferences change the order, the number of events per page (1 to 100), spacing, colors, how dates are written and the time zone for times. They travel in the page address, so a link you copy carries them. Anything fixed by whoever placed this listing is not offered.

Submitting and correcting

"Submit an event" and "Correction" open a form that an editor reads. Neither changes the directory on its own. A link to a page showing the right information makes a correction far quicker to act on.

"Promote an event" and "Promote" open a request to feature an event or to run a 1200 × 200 pixel banner. It shows the price for the dates you choose before you send it. Sending it is a request, not a booking: the site reviews it, confirms the dates and arranges any payment with you, and nothing is shown until it is approved.

Using the event information

"CC BY" opens the page that explains how you may reuse the event information: it is shared under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence, so you can copy and adapt it, including commercially, as long as you credit it as that page asks and say if you changed anything.

The same page offers the published events as a CSV file with six columns: event name, event type, organizer, event website, start date and end date. Opening it in a spreadsheet does not run anything in it. Each download is logged with the date and time, your IP address, an approximate location worked out from it and the number of events, as the notice beside the download button says.

Anonymous statistics

The directory counts how often events are shown, opened, saved, compared and clicked through, so the site can tell what readers find useful. A count carries a random number for this one page load, which is not stored in your browser, and the kind of site you came from. It does not include your name, your address, cookies or what you searched for. Nothing is counted if the site switched counting off, or if a consent tool on this site says you have not agreed to statistics.

If something does not work

Searching, filtering, sorting, paging, the calendar and every link work without JavaScript. Saved events and the comparison need it, because they are remembered by your browser.

Other advertising on this site is placed by the site, not by this directory. If an advertisement covers a control, close it and the control works as before.