{"id":871980,"date":"2026-08-26T10:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T10:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/871980\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T10:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T10:04:17","slug":"federal-government-announcing-support-for-space-and-defence-sector-in-st-lawrence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/871980\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Government Announcing Support for Space and Defence Sector in St. Lawrence"},"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\/08\/taiga-sub-orbital-rocket-at-asx-slc-02-being-raised-for-first-flight-aug-2025.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Federal Government Announcing Support for Space and Defence Sector in St. Lawrence\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taiga Sub-Orbital Rocket at ASX SLC-02, Being Raised for First Flight, Aug 2025 (NordSpace)<\/p>\n<p>The minister responsible for ACOA will be in St. Lawrence tomorrow to announce support for the province\u2019s space and defence sectors. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nordspace.com\/spaceport\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NordSpace<\/a> has been in the process of developing a commercial space launch facility on the tip of the Burin Peninsula for the last number of years.<\/p>\n<p>The company says the development, once realized, will be the first operational Canadian orbital spaceport, and the country\u2019s \u201cgateway to space.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Minister Sean Fraser will be in St. Lawrence tomorrow morning to announce what federal officials call \u201csignificant investment\u201d for the local space and defence sectors.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Taiga Sub-Orbital Rocket at ASX SLC-02, Being Raised for First Flight, Aug 2025 (NordSpace) The minister responsible&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":871981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49,48,269876,185074,269873,66,306,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-871980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-science","tag-space","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871980","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=871980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}