XmarkSpot19

Leafs fan 🍁 space geek 🚀 software engineer 🧑‍💻

[XmarkSpot19 @XmarkSpot1983]

@akhubar @TRADERONETEN It is possible I do support Canadian efforts in space but these guys ain’t it. They’re grifters and every few years come up with some new twist to keep the scam going and squeeze the government. I noticed there’s a band of pump and dumpers on X to push the MLS stock price.

[XmarkSpot19 @XmarkSpot1983]

@akhubar @TRADERONETEN Crazy thing is maritime launch didn’t even make the rocket. They operate a concrete pad acting like some major space company. Lobbied the govt for $200 mill. The rocket that launched failed TWICE and it’s just a basic solid rocket. How can a company that does nothing still fail.

[XmarkSpot19 @XmarkSpot1983]

@SpencerFernando I am seeing ppl are mixing up the Atlantic spaceport complex by NordSpace in Newfoundland w/ MLS in Nova Scotia. The one in NS is receiving $200 million to lease a single pad. The one in NFLD is by a legit aerospace startup building actual rockets and a port of their own.

[XmarkSpot19 @XmarkSpot1983]

@Rust_ranger57 @Nord_Space Based on all posts I seen it looks like people confusing NordSpace with Maritime Launch Systems. They think NordSpace got 200 million but don’t realize Nord is a legit operation launching from NFLD not Nova Scotia and didn’t get that money.

[XmarkSpot19 @XmarkSpot1983]

@tobi Wow

[XmarkSpot19 @XmarkSpot1983]

@CanadaInSpace Horrible mistake by the govt to invest $200M in a single “launch pad” at a nearly bankrupt “spaceport”. This has tainted the entire space industry in Canada. How unfortunate but taxpayer money going to scams is unacceptable and should be questioned.

[XmarkSpot19 @XmarkSpot1983]

@alleria_eh He created countless millionaires

[XmarkSpot19 @XmarkSpot1983]

@daveginvesting Wonder why the other space stocks are dropping

[XmarkSpot19 @XmarkSpot1983]

@maritimelaunch You launched a tiny bit bigger rocket than my kids launch at summer camp. $200M with $20M backdated to the last year to lease a slab of concrete that launch hobby grade solid fuel rockets that fail twice? 😂

[Barry Sharp @BarryESharp]

This is the same tired deflection we’ve seen for years from Liberal apologists desperate to justify another wasteful handout.

The $200 million, 10-year DND lease for “dedicated pad access” at Spaceport Nova Scotia remains exactly what critics called it: an overpriced lease to a struggling private operator (Maritime Launch Services) for a basic gravel site with a small unserviced concrete slab, sea cans, and a road, while broader infrastructure lags and orbital capability stays years away.

Facts on the June 10, 2026 “milestone”: A Dutch company’s small single-stage solid rocket (T-Minus Barracuda, ~13 feet tall, ~40 kg payload capacity) achieved liftoff for a suborbital hop that fell short of its target altitude due to an anomaly, the third launch ever from the site, following a 2023 student rocket and a prior failed Barracuda attempt. No orbital insertion. No sovereign Canadian vehicle. Just another test flight that could have happened under standard regulatory approvals at any suitable coastal range. Dignitaries pushing buttons and press releases don’t change the engineering reality: this is early experimental work, not proof of value for $20 million annually in taxpayer funds.

This fits the unbroken Carney-Liberal pattern of technocratic continuity: announce big visionary spending, backdate leases to prop up connected operators, tout incremental activity as transformation, while core metrics worsen. Combined federal-provincial debt barrels past $2.4 trillion. Labour productivity sits at ~71% of U.S. levels with a widening gap. Real per-capita GDP stagnation. Household debt burdens near the highest in the G7. A World Happiness Report ranking that hit Canada’s worst-ever position around 25th globally. Over $670 billion in stalled energy and resource projects per Fraser Institute tallies, driven by the same regulatory layering, carbon mandates, and parallel veto systems that prioritize optics and insiders over audited outcomes.

Canadians aren’t buying the spin that a basic pad plus a hobby-scale foreign rocket suddenly validates funneling $200 million to MLS amid their financial pressures. The site required environmental assessments and permitting long before this lease, requirements any serious operator would navigate without turning it into a perpetual taxpayer subsidy. Critics highlighted the minimal existing infrastructure because that’s what the $200 million commitment secured: dedicated access and expansion obligations that remain largely unmet for true orbital operations (still eyed for 2027+ at best). Defending it as “long-term goals” while ignoring immediate opportunity costs, foregone tax relief, debt reduction, housing supply fixes, or actual defence procurement, is classic narrative control over evidence.

Precision demands better. One Charter-equal law for all, no insider leases or backdated deals. Statutory timelines for projects. Fiscal discipline that measures every dollar by verifiable results for citizens, not photo-ops and European partners. Scrap the ideological overhead that turns modest test sites into billion-scale promises while productivity, wages, and sovereignty erode. Evidence over excuses. Canadians and verifiable reality first.

Barry E. Sharp
Fighting policy storms for real freedom & evidence-based reform. 🇨🇦

[XmarkSpot19 @XmarkSpot1983]

@IanStaunton @Astra Maritime launch is a joke. There spaceport is 3 km from 3 towns. No real rockets are ever gonna launch from there. It’s all just smoke and mirrors. The rocket launches from their pad was something high school kids make.

[XmarkSpot19 @XmarkSpot1983]

@BluntButRight I don’t under stand why the Nordspace guys allowed her on stage. Good on em I guess for trying to be neutral but I’d say being associated in any way with this scam is a bad look for them.

[XmarkSpot19 @XmarkSpot1983]

@BluntButRight It is truly wild. She literally said it shouldn’t cost more than 12 million and then has the gall to demand $20 million PER YEAR including in advance from the government. I found she got on stage again this year her talk is honestly embarrassing to watch https://t.co/dwA3RfMQuK

[XmarkSpot19 @XmarkSpot1983]

@Bob31685906 @MichaelCooperMP Do you have any insight into this scam? How did the same person go to requiring 15x more money from Canadian tax payers?

[XmarkSpot19 @XmarkSpot1983]

Stumbled on this talk by Melissa Quinn from Maritime Launch Services. At the 7:45 mark she said they only needed £12M to build the spaceport. So why does she now require $200M of our tax dollars in Canada? https://t.co/qbIjjZR2Z9 @BluntButRight @Tablesalt13 @don_bowser

[XmarkSpot19 @XmarkSpot1983]

@LionnetPierre @arstechnica Yes my point exactly … they recd 8.3M to build rockets and 0 to build a spaceport. They are more advanced still on all fronts. Two other companies recd 8.3M too and one of them opened shop 3 months ago with two guys in a WeWork (no joke it’s actually a WeWork).

[XmarkSpot19 @XmarkSpot1983]

@LionnetPierre @arstechnica Keep in mind this spaceport isn’t a scam like the Nova Scotia one , it’s being built by a real company. Probably why they didn’t receive any govt support for their project even tho they’re more advanced.

[XmarkSpot19 @XmarkSpot1983]

@StephenPunwasi Ive been very impressed by this team. In a few years they’ve done more than every launch company in Canada combined over the last 15 yrs. Suck that they got barely any cash while mls got $200m. Shows you how corrupt the system is eh

[XmarkSpot19 @XmarkSpot1983]

@martianwyrdlord @BluntButRight company’s address is WeWork in downtown Toronto. 2 month old company noticed the launch the north challenge, rushed to slap together a website, grabbed some investor buds to look legit, hired lobbyists, scored $8.33 mil. A 2 month old company … building rockets … from a WeWork

[XmarkSpot19 @XmarkSpot1983]

@BluntButRight @martianwyrdlord Best case if it succeeds which it can’t it’ll get maybe 50 kg to orbit … still better than mls imo in reaction’s case they will create aerospace jobs even though the tech is dead end. Mls is a total sham same with Canada rocket corporation