This edition of the SSP Bulletin highlights new commercial and defense applications for space-based solar power, including orbital data center partnerships, military base resilience studies, wireless power demonstrations, advanced space solar cell development, and emerging use cases for AI infrastructure and electric aviation.

This Space Frontier Foundation analysis argues that NASA’s Space Launch System is economically unsustainable compared with emerging commercial launch alternatives. Using cost, capacity, and cadence as benchmarks, the piece makes the case for ending SLS after Artemis V and transitioning to competitive commercial cislunar transport.

This edition of the SSP Bulletin highlights growing momentum for space-based solar power across energy, defense, data centers, and lunar operations, including major funding rounds, wireless power demonstrations, strategic policy attention, and new engagement between the space and energy sectors.