Building Sovereign Launch for Canada

Derrick Chow, Director of Operations at Nordspace

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Nordspace is a space systems manufacturing company based in Markham, Ontario. What we do is that we're developing end-to-end space systems to help Canada achieve sovereign launch capabilities.​

We design, engineer, prototype, manufacture and test everything in-house—our team of 15 today, with mostly engineers with varying backgrounds across propulsion, mechanical, electrical, materials and computer.

The idea is to, you know, within 3 years' time to give Canada that overall launch capability, both for commercial and defense use cases to carry our own payloads on a Canadian rocket from Canadian soil.

Ultimately, this is to help Canada achieve assured access to space and reduce reliance on third party companies in foreign countries who may, in the future, not have aligned interests with Canada.