MIAMI-BASED CITY LABS ACHIEVES A FIRST FOR COMMERCIAL NUCLEAR POWER IN SPACE

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City Labs' BOHR (Betavoltaic Orbital High-Reliability) satellite launched on a SpaceX ride-share mission on Tuesday alongside 80 other payloads. It was released into an orbit at an altitude between 350 and 400 miles. The world's first commercial nuclear-powered satellite, BOHR, is powered by electricity generated from the decay of tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen. The company's betavoltaic power systems are far too small to power a smartphone, much less a large spacecraft or a moon base, but it is a step in the right direction for proponents of nuclear power in space.