The EPIC Meeting on Photonics at the Final Frontier at European Space Agency (ESA) held at ESA focusing on “photonics at final frontier”, aims to review the main and most promising emerging technologies addressing new space applications. They will make highly relevant experts from the industry, and from the R&D, meet together to bring the discussion to another level. In the last years, photonics is gaining a key enabling technology in space engineering. Optical, optoelectronic, and photonic payloads are currently widely utilized especially for earth observation, sensing and several new payloads based on the same technologies are in the development stage. It is expected that in the next decade, photonics will gain an important role in other sub-systems such as data processing/handling and the communications ones. The future of space will be discussed through 5 sessions, from space-based Lidar technologies, to optical links for inter- and intra- spacecraft communications, including new development for earth observation. They will set up the stage with a session on the role of Human in space exploration, and close the event with a session regarding emerging trends for NewSpace.