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Miami-based City Labs launches BOHR, a 1U CubeSat powered by a tritium betavoltaic battery, claiming the first commercial nuclear-powered satellite. The mission demonstrates persistent power for small payloads while solar panels handle regular operations, and serves as a regulatory-approved first step toward broader nuclear-powered space missions—though power levels remain nanowatt to microwatt range.
SpaceX launched BOHR, the first commercially built nuclear-powered satellite from City Labs, on the Transporter-17 mission. BOHR tests City Labs’ NanoTritium betavoltaic power source for continuous space power, though the CubeSat still relies on solar energy for general operations, signaling a potential path for future nuclear-powered missions in challenging environments like permanently shadowed lunar regions.
MIT researchers recreated a modern, highly precise version of the double-slit experiment using ultracold atoms, confirming that wave-particle duality depends on quantum uncertainty and refuting Einstein's idea that both a photon's path and interference pattern can be measured simultaneously, thus advancing our understanding of quantum mechanics.
MIT scientists performed an idealized double-slit experiment with single atoms and photons, confirming the dual wave-particle nature of light and disproving Einstein's 100-year-old proposal that both properties could be observed simultaneously, thus settling a long-standing debate in quantum physics.