{"id":619314,"date":"2026-04-21T18:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/619314\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T18:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:05:09","slug":"government-introduces-bill-to-support-space-launches-from-canadian-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/619314\/","title":{"rendered":"Government introduces bill to support space launches from Canadian territory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA \u2014 The federal government is introducing legislation to support space launches in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon introduced the Canadian Space Launch Act today, which will allow the government to regulate and oversee both launches and re-entry.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said in a technical briefing the new rules will allow technology like satellites and rockets to be launched into space from Canadian soil.<\/p>\n<p>They said the launches will serve both military and civilian applications.<\/p>\n<p>The government says in a news release that, as the only G7 country without its own space launch capabilities, Canada has had to rely on launch facilities in other countries, especially the United States.<\/p>\n<p>In March, the government announced it is putting $200 million toward a Canadian-owned launch pad in Nova Scotia.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 22, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Anja Karadeglija, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 The federal government is introducing legislation to support space launches in Canada. Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-619314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619314","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=619314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}