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[NordSpace 🇨🇦 @Nord_Space]

Contact! 🚀🛰️🇨🇦 NordSpace officially becomes the first Canadian launch company operating hardware in orbit, retiring significant technical, operational and business risks for both our launch and spacecraft programs. Our mission to build Canada’s first end-to-end space missions company is now massively closer! Canadian payloads, launching on Canadian rockets, from Canadian soil.

Terra Nova, NordSpace’s first satellite, has successfully gone through LEOP, is operating nominally, and preparing for commissioning. Through this mission we are learning the critical lessons that will feed directly into our launch and space systems program, including the upcoming launch of our own Taiga rocket from our Atlantic Spaceport Complex in Newfoundland and Labrador. In order to succeed with sovereign launch for Canada, NordSpace is building a company that is itself sovereign first, and this mission is a massive step in that direction for us.

Over the next several weeks, our Missions Team will continue communicating with Terra Nova and preparing for full operations. Those operations will include running tests for predictive threat monitoring over Canadian soil related to wildfires and the Arctic. These lessons will feed into our soon-to-be-announced constellation projects and hosted payload missions that are purpose built to serve as strong demand generators and launch aboard our Tundra orbital rocket.

NordSpace is a company focused on cadence and execution, and this mission is a glimpse into the sustainable space future for Canada we are building. Thank you to everyone who tuned into our livestream yesterday, and get excited for the many missions we have coming soon!

Ad astra per aspera ✨

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