We are pleased to present NordSpace CEO, Rahul Goel's, annual update on our progress and missions from last week's Canadian Space Launch Conference. The keynote spanned rocket development, spaceport construction, satellite and robotic missions, strategic investments, and a 25 year vision for Canada's future in space. In Rahul’s address, he specifically discussed: 🏗️ The existential necessity for a space launch company to pursue vertical integration to develop a commercially viable and scalable capability that is sovereign itself, to reliably support a sovereign launch program for the country. 📈 NordSpace’s three phase plan to evolve from pathfinder missions and developments, to scaled manufacturing and production, and ultimately internalized launch cadence and gains. Resulting in a highly competitive cost structure that only the convergence of a company’s carefully planned launch systems and space systems divisions can enable. 🚀 NordSpace’s rapid advancements in its rocket systems, ranging from scaling engine technology to the orbital regime with our patent pending Hadfield-150 engine, growing our advanced manufacturing capabilities in metal additive and automated composites for primary structures, engine testing and test facilities, and more. 💫 The Atlantic Spaceport Complex (ASX), NordSpace’s private spaceport in Newfoundland and Labrador, and recent advancements including active construction at SLC-02, environmental approvals, aeronautical studies, spaceport design in preparation for Tundra’s first flight, and community collaborations. 🏭 NordSpace’s new campus, a 60,000 sqft facility that we are moving into this month to expand our team to 235 employees over the coming years, while adding significant capabilities in vertically integrated manufacturing, assembly, and testing of our rockets and spacecraft. 🛰️ Updates on NordSpace's first satellite, Terra Nova, launching to space later this year to demonstrate key in-house developed hardware and software for wildfire monitoring, Arctic surveillance, and space domain awareness. The mission uses our edge-AI imaging payload, Chronos, and will test secondary systems such as key components of our Athena bus and our Zephyr-EP in-space thruster. 🌖 Our new lunar program, starting with Canada’s first lunar rover named TERRY, fully privately financed and built by NordSpace, arriving at the surface of the Moon late 2027. This mission will expand into a high cadence of hosted payload lunar rover missions with TERRY starting in 2028. 💵 Announcing several new investments, including over $20M in new strategic investments in manufacturing and spaceport infrastructure, and NordSpace Ventures with several new investments in Canadian space and defence startups. 👩‍🚀 NordSpace’s 25 year vision for Canada’s future in space from interplanetary missions to manned spaceflight. The remainder of the sessions will be published to NordSpace’s YouTube channel over the coming days. We look forward to welcoming everyone to the Canadian Space Launch Conference in 2027. Ad astra! 🇨🇦

Exciting updates coming soon from NordSpace’s Atlantic Spaceport Complex (ASX) in Newfoundland and Labrador, SLC-01 and SLC-02. Pretty wild that both Rocket Lab and SpaceX built orbital rockets and their own spaceports for much less than CAD $200 million combined. Capital efficiency is so conveniently ignored by people in this industry. At NordSpace, we track every penny and every second, and do the hard parts first. Codspeed!

Here’s a look inside the belly of the beast! The interior of one of the countless in-house metal 3D printed Hadfield-10 combustion chambers we’ve developed over the years, tested and iterated upon. Much of our team is now working on our orbital-class hardware and infrastructure to get Canada to orbit for the first time with our Canadian-made and owned Tundra light-lift and Tundra medium-lift rockets. However, this is the engine that proved we could design, manufacture, test and soon fly liquid rocket engines from scratch, entirely in-house in a commercial setting, at the pace necessary to reach orbit and deliver operational capabilities. With the upcoming launch of Taiga powered by the Hadfield-10, it will be the first commercial liquid rocket to ever launch from Canadian soil. A necessary step towards launching larger rockets at scale with capital efficiency, technical experience, and operational excellence in a truly made-in-Canada sovereign capacity that lasts decades and beyond. The same architecture also retires significant risk for our Tundra rocket, has grown into our in-house talent development program “Rocket League”, and serves as the design for a future kick stage to deliver payloads to higher orbits. The cross sections and interiors of our combustion chambers reveal critical details our team uses to continue to improve designs and processes. Manufacturing precision related to the integrated regenerative cooling channels, combustion and flow characteristics, carbon layers, injector performance, damage and failure modes from off-nominal tests, etc. That knowledge now flows directly into our patent pending turbopump fed Hadfield orbital-class engine, the most powerful rocket engine in Canadian history. Designed to power our Tundra light-lift and Tundra medium-lift rockets, architected from day one to grow to the thrust levels required for our reusable Tempest (formerly referred to as “Titan”) medium-lift vehicle targeting 5,000 kg to LEO. All while striking the right balance between performance, scalability, heritage, and speed of development to meet the Government of Canada’s targets. Ad astra per aspera 🚀🇨🇦 @NationalDefence @DRDC_RDDC @csa_asc @Transport_gc

.@NGen_Canada, one of Canada’s global #InnovationClusters, announced funding for a project led by @Nord_Space to strengthen space propulsion manufacturing capacity in Canada. globenewswire.com/news-relea…

This week NordSpace's CEO, Rahul Goel, appeared before the House of Commons Standing Committee on National Defence (NDDN) in our nation's capital to make the case for sovereign space launch: Canadian payloads, on Canadian rockets, from Canadian soil. Specifically, how NordSpace has spent years methodically and meticulously executing on its step-by-step plan to sustainably evolve capabilities, capital, and cadence. Rahul's message was clear. Assured access to space underpins navigation, communications, and surveillance for the Canadian Armed Forces and our allies. Unnecessary delays in achieving sustained operational capabilities chasing science experiments, buying foreign products, or developing impractical capabilities results in Canadian lives at stake, on and off the battlefield. When Canada cannot deploy or replenish a satellite at home with our own people, intellectual property, supply chains, and infrastructure, foreign nations are making national security decisions on our behalf. Sovereign launch also represents more than 1,000 skilled jobs over the coming decade, sustained demand for Canadian aluminum and critical minerals, and intellectual property that remains in Canada which can evolve with changing requirements. We are scaling our Ontario manufacturing facility tenfold toward 235 employees, expanding our spaceport in Newfoundland and Labrador, and signing launch service agreements. A suborbital demonstration of our Taiga rocket powered by our in-house designed and manufactured 3D printed Hadfield engines is weeks away. Our Terra Nova satellite is bound for orbit this year to use artificial intelligence at the edge to assess threats from space, both security and environmental. Our spaceport, the Atlantic Spaceport Complex (ASX), is ready to scale to medium-lift and beyond, with design and construction ongoing as we speak. We are grateful to the Committee for the invitation, and for taking sovereign launch seriously. Encouraging measures such as the Defence Industrial Strategy, the Launch the North challenge, and the Canadian Space Launch Act signal to industry and investors that Canada is serious. NordSpace is not here merely to survive. We are here to win, in Canada and globally. But Canada has a choice to make, and a narrow window in which to make it. Will we be participants, or leaders in space? Will we be buyers, or builders? As BGen Horner, Commander of 3 Canadian Space Division, said: "From the Arctic to cislunar space, Canada's strategic environment is expanding. And so must our ambition." @NationalDefence @DavidMcGuinty @DRDC_RDDC @CanadianForces Charles Sousa @jamesbezan @SherryRomanado Philip Earle Scott Anderson @cherylgallant Lori Idlout @JeffKibbleCML @VivianeLapointe Chris Malette Tim Watchorn Christine N. Tim W.

A Canadian consortium led by Markham-based NordSpace Corp. has secured $3.2 million from NGen to develop Canada’s first AI-powered hybrid manufacturing line for advanced space propulsion. 🚀 The $8 million project focuses on establishing a completely domestic supply chain for high-performance rocket engine turbopumps—a critical launch vehicle component often subject to foreign supply vulnerabilities and strict ITAR export controls. The move marks a significant step toward localizing the hardware backbone required for NordSpace’s planned launch operations at the Atlantic Spaceport Complex in Newfoundland and Labrador. Read our story here: 👇 spaceq.ca/canadian-consortiu… #SpaceQ #NordSpace #NGen #Aerospace #AdvancedManufacturing #SpaceLaunch #SovereignSpace #CanadianSpace

This is a great call to action by Alex MacDonald. NordSpace’s launch program is specifically being designed to scale to our nation’s medium-lift future and enable missions in cislunar space — the ultimate economic and security high ground of the 21st century. Plus, our TERRY rover will arrive at the lunar south pole next year and make Canadian history as we work tirelessly to build a self-sustaining sovereign launch program 🇨🇦 #LaunchTheNorth #AdLunam

Team NordSpace is heading to hashtag#CANSEC2026 next week, May 27/28th in Ottawa. Find us at Booth 2030 (and grab some swag!) or walking the show floor at Canada's largest defence and security trade show to engage with the Canadian Armed Forces, the Department of National Defence, allied delegations, prime contractors, and our partners across the Canadian defence industrial base. Let's talk Canadian launch, satellite, and spaceport opportunities with: 👩‍🚀 Rahul Goel — CEO & Founder 👨‍🚀 Derrick Chow — Vice President, Operations 🧑‍🚀 Ryan Anderson — Director, Business Development 👩‍🚀 Jennifer Gawor — Manager, External Relations NordSpace is Canada's only vertically integrated space launch and missions company, designing and building an end-to-end sovereign capability: orbital launch vehicles, satellites, and our own spaceport. 🚀 Tundra and Titan — Our light-lift (500 - 1,100 kg) and medium-lift (5,000 kg) orbital launch vehicles, powered by our in-house 3D printed Hadfield liquid rocket engines and developed for responsive, low-cost, reusable access to orbit from Canadian soil, with our patent pending Hadfield-150 scaling engine technology 💫 Atlantic Spaceport Complex (ASX) — NordSpace's private spaceport in Newfoundland and Labrador, with active construction at SLC-02, environmental approvals secured, widest safety distances in Canada, and the widest range of nominal launch inclinations in Canada for polar, sun-synchronous, mid-inclination, and equatorial access 🏭 Advanced Manufacturing for Aerospace Lab (AMA Lab) — Large-scale metal additive, Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) for composite primary structures, and a brand new 60,000 sqft campus opening this month to scale vertically integrated manufacturing, assembly, and testing of our rockets and spacecraft 🛡️ SHARP Program — Supersonic and Hypersonic Applications Research Platform (SHARP), our dual-use high-speed and high-altitude flight test capability for Canadian and allied defence applications using our sub-orbital rocket platform 🛰️ Space Systems Lab (SSL) — Our spacecraft development division, with our Terra Nova dual-use demonstration satellite launching to space later this year for edge-AI wildfire monitoring and Arctic surveillance pathfinder tests, scaling to our first constellation 🌖 Lunar Program — Canada's first lunar rover, TERRY, fully privately financed and built by NordSpace, arriving at the surface of the Moon in late 2027, with high-cadence hosted payload missions on TERRY starting in 2028/2029 💵 NordSpace Ventures — Our venture capital and strategic investment division, deploying capital across Canadian space, defence, and dual-use technology companies aligned with Canada's sovereign space and defence ecosystem The window to build has never been more open. We look forward to seeing many of you in Ottawa next week. @NationalDefence @DRDC_RDDC @CadsiCanada

We're excited to share the first glimpse of Chronos, headed to orbit later this year aboard our Terra Nova satellite. Chronos is NordSpace's own imaging payload developed in-house for edge-AI real-time intelligence in low earth orbit (LEO), initially trained for wildfire and arctic monitoring, and to practice wide-field-of-view space domain awareness. Chronos will be in-orbit later this year aboard NordSpace’s first Terra Nova satellite built to test real-time operations in LEO, launching with SpaceX’s Transporter-18 mission. Chronos features a NVIDIA GPU and 3 cameras: high-resolution visible band, multispectral, and situational awareness. This pathfinder mission is fully privately funded and managed by NordSpace in our Space Systems Lab (SSL). In addition to Chronos, Terra Nova is flying Zephyr-EP, a small electric thruster developed to test in-space propulsion applications such as station-keeping, RPOD, and de-orbiting. This mission is both a demonstration of key technologies NordSpace will leverage for our upcoming constellation and hosted payload offering, and an experience building activity for in-space operations as part of NordSpace’s goal to develop an end-to-end space missions capability in Canada. The Terra-Nova platform will be scaled to larger satellites for hosted payload missions starting later this year, with the goal to boost satellite output in Canada while generating significant internalized demand for NordSpace's own orbital launch vehicle program. If you are looking to fly your payload to space or are looking to develop small constellations, reach out to our team for the fastest and most reliable way to complete your mission. @NationalDefence @DRDC_RDDC @csa_asc

After 33 years of life on Earth, I’m finally here. Revealing Canada’s first lunar rover on stage last week, built and funded 100% by NordSpace. A goal I’ve chased for decades. Canada belongs on the Moon, and beyond. TERRY arrives on Luna in 2027. Wish my mom could have seen this.

This week, 400 of the most ambitious people in Canadian space sold out the second annual Canadian Space Launch Conference in Ottawa, with another 200 on the waitlist. Alongside operators, engineers, investors, government, military, and our international allies, detailed and honest technical conversations were had that this country has needed for decades. It was clear by the end of the conference that Canada has the people, power and purpose to build great things and win. A year ago, launch was a topic the space community largely treated as somebody else’s problem. Today the industry has historic funding, policy and regulatory support behind it with multiple Canadian companies maturing in parallel, real engines firing, vehicles developing, and infrastructure being built. From BGen Christopher Horner’s critical message about sovereignty being a real act that needs exercising, Alex MacDonald’s detailed framing of Canada’s past, present and future, Eliot Pence’s words about massive ambition being the vital ingredient, Rahul Goel’s rallying cry around building sovereign companies that extend to sovereign countries, and 30 other speakers who shaped the conference — we left energized and ready to fight to build our community and country. Space quietly underpins almost every system modern Canadians rely on, from banking and communications to weather, navigation, disaster response, and Arctic sovereignty. The satellites delivering those services need vehicles to put them there. The investment driving global launch is, overwhelmingly, defence investment, and that is not a footnote, it is the headline. Modern conflict is observed, coordinated, and increasingly contested from orbit, and our adversaries are moving quickly. A nation that cannot reach space on its own terms cannot defend its people, support its allies, or protect the orbital infrastructure that holds modern life together. Sovereign launch is what lets Canada choose what flies, when, and for whom. Canada has a duty to protect this country on land, sea, air, and space. All four, not three. Momentum is not permanent, so we must seize this and every window of opportunity that comes our way. Our job at NordSpace is to get sovereign Canadian launch standing on its own two feet efficiently, rapidly, and reliably. Canada is going to win, and we are building it together. See you next year, bigger and better. Ad astra per aspera. 🇨🇦🚀 #CSLC2026

RT @howellspace: My first dispatch from the @Nord_Space launch conference at @avspacemuseum in Ottawa today, where I'm reporting for @Canad…

Great start to the day with Alex MacDonald, former NASA Chief Economist, talking about Canada’s past and future in space. #SpaceLaunch2026 #LaunchTheNorth

Huge turnout at the Canadian Space Launch Conference 🚀🇨🇦 Canada belongs in space.