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Josh Dinner

SpaceX just launched the 1st-ever nuclear-powered commercial satellite

Various space probe cubesats are attached to a payload adapter in orbit of Earth.

The world's first commercially built nuclear-powered satellite has reached orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

The BOHR (Betavoltaic Orbital High-Reliability) satellite, built by Florida-based company City Labs, launched to space early this morning (July 7) on SpaceX's Transporter-17 rideshare mission.

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