๐ SpaceX Just Launched the World's First Commercial Nuclear-Powered Satellite
SpaceX's Transporter-17 Falcon 9 lifted off from Vandenberg on July 7, carrying 81 payloads โ including City Labs' BOHR CubeSat, the first commercial satellite powered by nuclear betavoltaic tech. BOHR converts the energy from tritium's radioactive decay into electricity, running continuously for up to two decades with no solar panels, sunlight, or moving parts. That makes it a potential game-changer for missions to permanently shadowed lunar craters and deep space where solar power fails. What mission would you most want a nuclear-powered satellite to tackle?
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