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August 27th, 2025
Image credit: NordSpace/Inside Outer Space screengrab
A Canadian space startup is taking one small step toward an orbital capability.
NordSpace is launching a pathfinder demonstration flight of its fully Canadian-made suborbital rocket – Taiga.
The launch window is currently August 29, with Taiga’s liftoff from NordSpace’s Atlantic Spaceport Complex (ASX) SLC-02, outside the town of St. Lawrence in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Making history
The Taiga mission is called “Getting Screeched In” and is billed as the first commercial liquid rocket launch in Canadian history, and the first commercial launch from a commercial Canadian spaceport.
Image credit: NordSpace
In the future, the plan is for the Atlantic Spaceport Complex to support equatorial to polar orbits using multiple launch pads.
Taiga is roughly 17 feet tall and 1 foot in diameter and powered by the group’s proprietary 3D printed liquid rocket engine, called the Hadfield Engine. Taiga’s flight is a partially-fuelled test that will last about 60 seconds.
Orbital rocket
NordSpace is currently working on its orbital rocket, Tundra, which will be a two-staged vehicle powered by multiple of our 3D printed Hadfield engines.
Image credit: NordSpace/Inside Outer Space screengrab
Tundra would be about 75 feet tall and approximately 15 feet in diameter. The group’s goal is to fly Tundra for the first time as early as 2027, according to the NordSpace website at:
A livestream of the Taiga suborbital launch will start approximately one hour prior to launch on Friday August 29, and is available at:
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