SpaceNews — More than 80 U.S. Space Force officers graduated from the service’s new year-long officer training course, which immerses leaders in space operations, cyber warfare, and intelligence — skills now seen as essential as China and Russia develop sophisticated capabilities to challenge American dominance in space.

Air and Space Forces — DARPA announced the start of Phase 1 of its Robust Quantum Sensors (RoQS) program, a trailblazing effort to prototype quantum sensing technology to provide a localized, non-space-based alternative to GPS.

SpaceNews — The Protected Tactical Satcom-Global (PTS-G) program marks the military’s first major attempt to deploy constellations of small satellites in the geostationary belt.

Aviationo Week — The Space Force is working with providers United Launch Alliance (ULA) and SpaceX to launch eight Phase 2 missions by the end of calendar year 2025. The missions were all procured under the NSSL Phase 2 program in 2020.

Aerospace’s Sam Wilson was recently interviewed on the podcast “Thinking the Unthinkable with Ankit Panda.”

SpaceNews — NASA has selected Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost, and Venturi Astrolab to advance capabilities for a lunar terrain vehicle (LTV) that Artemis astronauts will use to travel around the lunar surface

Space News — “Today’s call for industry input is an important step toward engaging the commercial space industry in powering the lunar economy and enabling future human exploration on Mars,” said Steve Sinacore, Fission Surface Power program executive at NASA’s Glenn Research Center.

Air and Space Forces — President Donald Trump announced Sept. 2 that U.S. Space Command will move its headquarters from Colorado to Alabama, the latest shift in a yearslong back-and-forth on the permanent home for the Pentagon’s orbital combatant command.

Space News — The mission marks the opening deployment of the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA). The approach is intended to avoid reliance on large, bespoke satellites by instead refreshing capability in regular increments, using small spacecraft built on shorter timelines.

Wired — NISAR, with its giant, 39-foot-diameter radar antenna, will monitor changes to glaciers, forests, and the Earth’s crust, providing data to help improve infrastructure and disaster responses.