One small step for NordSpace and one giant leap for Newfoundland and Labrador as the aerospace company plans to launch Canada's first commercial rocket to space today from the town of St. Lawrence! NordSpace founder and CEO, Rahul Goel said the launch will be a test of the single engine rocket system - a 16 meter-long rocket created using 3D-printed metal! The launch will be a single-engine suborbital test flight which will be about 30 seconds.
While the rocket won't carry humans, they will carry payloads or small satellites into low orbit between 500 and 1,000 kilometers into space.
We are coming less dependant on the US and creating our own defense systems! Brilliant!
