BenderDrummer

Taiga’s screaming and ready-to-fly! With Canada’s first-ever commercial launch of our Taiga rocket and Hadfield engine technology from our Atlantic Spaceport Complex (ASX) in Newfoundland and Labrador now imminent, the nighttime wet dress rehearsal vibes at Area 66 (our propulsion test centre in Ontario) are off the charts! NordSpace is working relentlessly to become a high-mission-cadence organization across all our platforms. Taiga is designed to build real flight cadence, heritage and experience over multiple planned launches. It will stress test Tundra’s hardware and operations at the ASX, Area 66, and RF-1, and set the foundations for critical programs such as VERTEX (Vehicle for Experimental Rocket Testing and EXploration), our Bondar orbital kick-stage, hypersonic testing, responsive launch, scaled manufacturing and quality control, and perhaps most importantly, Rocket League. Rocket League is our in-house talent development program for young rocket engineers and the only one of its kind in Canada where engineers experience building, testing and flying liquid rockets all in one work term. With Taiga, we have gone to great lengths over the course of the last 12 months to seek the first commercial launch licence in our nation’s history granted under the pending Canadian Space Launch Act, to push the limits of the same regulatory regime our Tundra orbital launches will operate under. Taiga is 100% made in Canada by NordSpace, and uses custom liquid rocket technology highly representative of what will allow us to, like our Terra Nova satellite, burn down risk and achieve orbital flight with Tundra not just once, but at scale. Our first mission is called “Getting Screeched In” and will launch from from Pad 2A at SLC-02 of our Atlantic Spaceport Complex in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada’s largest spaceport. Codspeed and ad astra! 🚀🇨🇦 @NationalDefence @DRDC_RDDC @csa_asc @Transport_gc @ISED_CA