Canada plans to allow commercial space launches, reduce reliance on US

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It’s good enough for Canada to have 100% launch control over their own satellites besides you guys have plenty of empty space to build a sweet launch site. Hopefully it works out well enough for Canada to eventually launch their own Astronauts into space. It would be pretty cool if the Artemis project started to have multiple countries for launches to scale things up quicker.

So you don't want Canada doing space launches. You want France doing them for us? Might as well just keep using US launch capability at that point. the whole point is building our own complex to launch commercial rockets.

Entirely depends on the orbit you're wanting. High inclination and polar orbits are more efficient from Canada than the equator.

Cheaper and easier for equatorial/low inclination orbits, yes. For polar orbits, launching from Canada will be fine.

And knows his rocket appliances.

But apparently only has a rudimentary understanding of rocket launch sites. Launching from florida only gives an extra 80 m/s in free Delta from the earth's rotation. Less than 1% of a benefit to launch from Florida instead of Nova Scotia, big benefits in being outside of hurricanes and small outlying islands. It's different if you want to plane change to orbiting the equator. But why would Canada need that? Most domestic satellites would serve Canada and the European market. And if that's really important to you, use 2.7% of your mass budget, and run the ion thrusters intead of rocket fuel for a slow transition to equatorial geo over a reasonable timeframe. There's reason Russia China and Europe are more than comfortable launching spacecraft and nobody is beating down south america's doors for a percent or two gain in launch efficiency, and even then only when they absolutely need to launch the largest possible thing into equatorial geostationary orbit

Equatorial launch sites also make sense for launches that need as much delta-V as possible since the Oberth effect reduces the amount of delta-V needed. The lower amount of inclination change burns also helps. It's why the James Webb Space Telescope launched from French Guiana since it needed as much delta-V it could to reach the Sun-Earth L2 Lagrange point. Though yeah equatorial launches aren't really needed for most satellite applications these days since those usually stay in LEO.

Save money with the hot air assist

There has to be some happy medium between “the river is so polluted it caught fire” and “the project to write an environmental impact report for high speed rail can now legally drink”.

North Korea is only like 2 degrees closer to the equator

Yes! We had 1 launch thus far it was a simple proof of concept that it is indeed possible!

Yes, mostly [sub-orbit](https://www.maritimelaunch.com/news/maritime-launch-completes-second-successful-suborbital-demonstration-spaceport-nova-scotia). One of those was in partnership with The Netherlands. At least two major lower-earth orbit (LEO) launch projects are scheduled for June of this year and next year

Good to know. I love space but spent my career in biotech instead, so I’m still learning.

I know your joking but we kinda already took over Belize in 40’s Something to do with American Jesuit priests and banks… You’re far too late…

And how are we going to fix that?

Not in Canada there aren't.