NordSpace Corp. has been selected as a winner of the Department of National Defence's (DND) "Launch the North: Accelerating Canada's Sovereign Access to Space" challenge, administered through the Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS) program. NordSpace has been awarded $8.33 million in Phase 1 grant funding toward the development and demonstration of its Tundra orbital launch vehicle, aiming to become Canada's first domestically designed, built, and operated end-to-end orbital launch system, targeting an Initial Operational Capability (IOC) for responsive light-lift launch from Canadian soil by 2028.
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