SpaceX Puts First Commercial Nuclear-Powered Satellite Into Orbit
This week, SpaceX’s Transporter-17 rideshare rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, carrying 81 payloads into a sun-synchronous orbit. Among them was a softball-sized BOHR…
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