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.

SpaceNews — At the National Defense Industrial Association’s emerging technologies conference, Chandra Donelson, USSF’s chief data and artificial intelligence officer, called AI transformation critical for a force that heavily relies on data.

Defense One — Nearly 150 companies are vying for a spot in the Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP), according to Maj. Gen. Stephen Purdy, acting assistant secretary of the Air Force and service acquisition executive for space.

MeriTalk — USSF’s Commercial Space Office (COSMO), part of Space Systems Command (SSC), is preparing to adopt a model similar to BRIDGES — a DARPA pilot program that eases security clearance barriers for small and nontraditional defense contractors.

Janes — Boeing will develop and construct the first two space vehicles for Space Force’s Evolved Strategic Satcom (ESS) program, with deliveries expected in 2031.

Kratos — Engineers at the Aerospace Corporation attended the SmallSat conference to discuss DiskSat. Despite its compact size, DiskSat could host a Synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) platform in very low-Earth orbit (vLEO) and obtain detailed imagery.

At Ragan’s Employee Experience Conference, Sabrina Steele, executive director of corporate affairs and communications at The Aerospace Corporation, told the audience that there’s power in the unity an employee ambassador program brings.