Future space missions are fundamentally different from traditional ones. Earlier spacecraft were tele-operated — most decisions were made on Earth and transmitted to the spacecraft. However, this model is no longer viable for deep-space exploration. Communication latency alone creates a critical bottleneck. Therefore, spacecraft must become autonomous intelligent agents capable of perception, reasoning, and decision-making. This requires the integration of advanced sensing, onboard data processing, edge AI, probabilistic reasoning, reinforcement learning, and fault-tolerant decision-making systems. As the demand for these technologies grows, it is essential to adapt existing hardware, software & AI architectures, designs, and algorithms, or to innovate radically to enable the deployment and management of these assets at scale. This must be achieved with the required energy and resource efficiency to ensure sustainability over their expected deployment lifetimes.

We invite submissions for a special session focused on the critical need to deploy AI-at-the-Edge and Edge-Compute in Space Assets, including Earth Observation Satellites, Orbital Data Centers, Lunar & Planetary Compute Platforms, and Autonomous Robots and Rovers for Servicing & Exploratory missions.