<div dir="auto">Hi all,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">A few links from today's questions that I thought I'd share:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">1) The Maritime Launch Services pad is located at the Nova Scotia spaceport. They actually have an upcoming sub-orbital launch of a Dutch-made rocket (company is a spin off of TU Delft's rocketry team) quite soon (June 8). They have shared about this on LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/barracuda-share-7467300861376102401-q1X7/?utm_source=social_share_send&utm_medium=android_app&rcm=ACoAADdgSUEBv1IgpgwHkj0zmx1DOoRYVtOYOQ0&utm_campaign=copy_link" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.linkedin.com/posts/barracuda-share-7467300861376102401-q1X7/?utm_source=social_share_send&utm_medium=android_app&rcm=ACoAADdgSUEBv1IgpgwHkj0zmx1DOoRYVtOYOQ0&utm_campaign=copy_link</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">2) The other launch pad, in St. Lawrence, is owned by Nordspace. They are calling it the "Atlantic Spaceport Complex". You can see from their photos that it looks like quite a difficult place to build (and hard to access), but they provide the rationale for why it's one of the best launch locations in Canada. You can read more about them here: <a href="https://www.nordspace.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.nordspace.com/</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">They're quite ambitious but I will say that they've now hosted an excellent space conference in Ottawa two years in a row and have been active in supporting Launch Canada as well, so they definitely act on the Canadian community brand they like to put front and center.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">3) The other two companies that have received government grants for developing Canadian launch capability are Reaction Dynamics (who I had the fortune of speaking to and touring their deployable ground systems when testing my team's hybrid rocket) and the lesser known Canadian Rocket Company, linked below.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.reactiondynamics.space/en/home" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.reactiondynamics.space/en/home</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.canadarocketcompany.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.canadarocketcompany.com/</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">One of the Launch Canada head organizers works for RDX and they have also been quite helpful to the rocketry community.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">4) Here's Allrockets if you want to try your hand at a kit rocket: <a href="https://www.allrockets.ca/">https://www.allrockets.ca/</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Hopefully that helps with those who were interested in the stuff happening in Canada.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Matteo</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, May 30, 2026, 8:44\u202fPM Matteo Golin <<a href="mailto:matteo.golin@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">matteo.golin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Haven't had a rocket blow up on the pad yet personally, but some friends have! And I've seen my fair share of shreds, ballistic re entries and CATOs (catastrophe at take off).<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Matteo</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, May 30, 2026, 7:33\u202fPM Chris Frey <<a href="mailto:cdfrey@foursquare.net" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">cdfrey@foursquare.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Fri, May 29, 2026 at 01:45:08PM -0400, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-announce wrote:<br>
> He will show off some of this software, so that you can embark<br>
> on your own journey to make rockets that don't explode on the<br>
> launchpad. <br>
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Gotta love how Paul keeps things current! :-)<br>
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- Chris<br>
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