{"id":796973,"date":"2026-07-12T11:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T11:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/796973\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T11:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T11:44:08","slug":"the-worlds-first-nuclear-powered-satellite-just-launched-on-a-spacex-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/796973\/","title":{"rendered":"The World&#8217;s First Nuclear-Powered Satellite Just Launched On A SpaceX Rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida-based City Labs has launched BOHR (Betavoltaic Orbital HighReliability) \u2014 the world\u2019s first commercial nuclear-powered satellite and first nuclear CubeSat \u2014 aboard SpaceX\u2019s Transporter-17 rideshare mission on July 7, 2026. BOHR demonstrates City Labs\u2019 NanoTritium\u2122 betavoltaic technology in orbit, converting the natural decay of tritium into continuous, always-on power that doesn\u2019t depend on sunlight or batteries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida-based City Labs has launched BOHR (Betavoltaic Orbital HighReliability) \u2014 the world\u2019s first commercial nuclear-powered satellite and first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49,48,66],"class_list":["post-796973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}