Space Daily July 09, 2026 • 11:00

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 - Space Daily

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 - Space Daily

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

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 powe… [+7481 chars]

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