06/04/2026
Congratulations to the finalists and winners of the inaugural Aviation Week Space Tech Challenge Awards. Category winners were: Colonization - Accurate Atom for MARS-REACT; Industrialization - Varda sSpace Industries for their W-Series Reentry Capsule. Connectical took the Protection and Defense category for LitegGuard. The winner of the Commercialization category was Blueshift for their AeroZero Tapes and the winner of the University Programs category was University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for LEAP. Congratulations to all!