{"id":544542,"date":"2026-03-18T13:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T13:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/544542\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T13:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T13:13:08","slug":"company-that-attempted-space-launches-from-st-lawrence-gets-federal-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/544542\/","title":{"rendered":"Company That Attempted Space Launches from St. Lawrence Gets Federal Boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/nordspace-sub-orbital-launch-st-lawrence.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Company That Attempted Space Launches from St. Lawrence Gets Federal Boost\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Chris Hadfield\/Facebook)<\/p>\n<p>The company behind a spaceport in St. Lawrence, is one of three Canadian companies that have been conditionally approved to receive $8.3 million in federal government funding aimed at developing the country\u2019s space launch capability. <\/p>\n<p>Markham, Ontario-based NordSpace made a number of attempted commercial space launches from the Burin Peninsula last summer.<\/p>\n<p>NordSpace, the Canada Rocket Company and Reaction Dynamics were each chosen through the federal government\u2019s Launch the North challenge to move their ideas from concept to prototype and testing, to build Canada\u2019s technical readiness. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (Chris Hadfield\/Facebook) The company behind a spaceport in St. Lawrence, is one of three Canadian companies that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49,48,66,306],"class_list":["post-544542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}