LondonCanada Rocket Company will build a $30 million engine test facility.
Canada is reassessing its reliance on US rockets as relations with Washington sour.
Ottawa’s first Launch the North awards totalled $8.33 million CAD, split among 3 companies building light-lift rockets.
Canada Rocket Company skipped light lift for the 12.5-tonne R-2, which its chief executive says could launch by 2032.
The company expects to start testing its E-1 engine at the site in about 2 years.
How each outlet framed it
- Ars Technica
- frames Canada's sovereign space ambitions as direct geopolitical response to Trump's tariffs and annexation threats, shows decision to skip small rockets for medium-lift capability
Sources: Ars Technica