Three days in Malaga for the small satellite community: designers, engineers, scientists, component suppliers and launch providers, in a single-venue forum format.
The Small Satellites & Services International Forum, known as SSSIF, is an annual forum dedicated to the small satellite sector, held in Malaga in southern Spain. The 2027 edition, the eighth, runs from 16 to 18 February at the Hotel NH Malaga. It is hosted by DHV Technology, the Malaga-based manufacturer of solar panels for small satellites, and gathers designers, engineers, scientists, developers, component suppliers and launch providers working on satellites at the smaller end of the mass range.
Small satellites have their own supply chain, their own economics and their own failure modes, and they are poorly served by the large space exhibitions where they are one category among many. SSSIF exists to put that specific community in one hotel for three days. The format is deliberately compact: presentations, exhibiting booths and unstructured time, with the whole cohort circulating together rather than dispersing across a fairground. That size is the point, and it is what distinguishes the forum from Space Tech Expo Europe or the IAC.
Sessions run across satellite design and platforms, subsystems and components, launch access, ground segment and operations, and the service and application layer that the satellites exist to support. Presentations come largely from practitioners describing missions and hardware rather than from executives describing strategy, which suits an audience whose questions are usually about qualification, radiation tolerance and delivery time.
The forum is hosted by DHV Technology, whose solar panel production for small satellites sits in the Malaga technology park. Andalusia has built a small aerospace cluster around Seville and Malaga, and the forum both serves and advertises it. The February slot, in a coastal city with mild winters, is not an accident either: it is a practical draw for a European audience.
Mixed, weighted to industry practitioners. University cubesat teams are a visible part of the audience, and there is a student ticket, but the programme centres on companies building and flying hardware.
Small by design, hosted in a hotel rather than an exhibition centre. Attendance figures are not published by the organiser.
No. The North American small satellite conferences serve their own market and are considerably larger. SSSIF is the compact European gathering, with a Spanish and southern European centre of gravity.
DHV Technology manufactures solar panels for small satellites from its base in the Malaga technology park and hosts the forum, which keeps the event unusually close to the hardware supply chain it serves.
The smallsat community's compact winter meeting in Malaga, hosted by a solar panel manufacturer, which tells you how close it stays to the hardware.
Tickets are sold through the forum website, with several ticket types including a reduced student rate. Exhibiting booths, speaking slots and sponsorship packages are offered separately and are quoted by the organiser. Prices for the 2027 edition are published in the tickets section of the site.
16 to 18 February 2027 at the Hotel NH Malaga, Malaga, Spain.
Yes. The organiser lists a student ticket alongside the standard categories.
English, with an international audience despite the Spanish host and location.
| Official website | https://sssif.com/ |
| Host company | https://dhvtechnology.com/ |