On July 7, a small Miami company called City Labs put a tritium-powered battery the size of a pencil eraser into orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 — its softball-sized BOHR CubeSat becoming the first commercial spacecraft ever cleared to carry a nuclear powe
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Early Tuesday morning, a softball-sized satellite built by Miami’s City Labs reached low Earth orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, becoming the first commercially built spacecraft to carry a nuclear power source and the first commercial nuclear mission cleared under the Federal Aviation Administration’s new launch approval process. The BOHR satellite — short for Betavoltaic […] The post On July 7, a small Miami company called City Labs put a tritium-powered battery the size of a pencil eraser into orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 — its softball-sized BOHR CubeSat becoming the first commercial spacecraft ever cleared to carry a nuclear power source under the FAA pathway built after a 2019 White House memo appeared first on Space Daily .
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