[kwlug-disc] [kwlug-announce] Meeting Monday: BigBlueButton Setup, High-Powered Rocketry (June 2026)

[Matteo Golin]

Hi all,

A few links from today's questions that I thought I'd share:

1) The Maritime Launch Services pad is located at the Nova Scotia
spaceport. They actually have an upcoming sub-orbital launch of a
Dutch-made rocket (company is a spin off of TU Delft's rocketry team) quite
soon (June 8). They have shared about this on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/barracuda-share-7467300861376102401-q1X7/?utm_source=social_share_send&utm_medium=android_app&rcm=ACoAADdgSUEBv1IgpgwHkj0zmx1DOoRYVtOYOQ0&utm_campaign=copy_link

2) The other launch pad, in St. Lawrence, is owned by Nordspace. They are
calling it the "Atlantic Spaceport Complex". You can see from their photos
that it looks like quite a difficult place to build (and hard to access),
but they provide the rationale for why it's one of the best launch
locations in Canada. You can read more about them here:
https://www.nordspace.com/

They're quite ambitious but I will say that they've now hosted an excellent
space conference in Ottawa two years in a row and have been active in
supporting Launch Canada as well, so they definitely act on the Canadian
community brand they like to put front and center.

3) The other two companies that have received government grants for
developing Canadian launch capability are Reaction Dynamics (who I had the
fortune of speaking to and touring their deployable ground systems when
testing my team's hybrid rocket) and the lesser known Canadian Rocket
Company, linked below.

https://www.reactiondynamics.space/en/home

https://www.canadarocketcompany.com/

One of the Launch Canada head organizers works for RDX and they have also
been quite helpful to the rocketry community.

4) Here's Allrockets if you want to try your hand at a kit rocket:
https://www.allrockets.ca/

Hopefully that helps with those who were interested in the stuff happening
in Canada.

Matteo

On Sat, May 30, 2026, 8:44 PM Matteo Golin <matteo.golin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Haven't had a rocket blow up on the pad yet personally, but some friends
> have! And I've seen my fair share of shreds, ballistic re entries and CATOs
> (catastrophe at take off).
>
> Matteo
>
> On Sat, May 30, 2026, 7:33 PM Chris Frey <cdfrey at foursquare.net> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, May 29, 2026 at 01:45:08PM -0400, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-announce
>> wrote:
>> > He will show off some of this software, so that you can embark
>> > on your own journey to make rockets that don't explode on the
>> > launchpad.
>>
>> Gotta love how Paul keeps things current! :-)
>>
>> - Chris
>>
>>
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