[OT]: More on the Canadian Spaceport front (Was: How to help a Canadian Spaceport?)

[James Knott]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 02:54:31PM -0400, Scott Elcomb wrote:
>    
>> I came across a story in the Sun today which reminded me of the
>> conversation we had on-list a couple years ago...
>>
>> "Cape Breton may become a Canadian version of Florida’s historic Cape
>> Canaveral where astronauts and rockets have been launched into outer
>> space for decades.
>>
>> The Canadian Space Agency is looking at the Nova Scotia island as one
>> of two possible sites to blast small satellites into orbit using an
>> indigenous rocket launch system.
>>
>> The other possible micro-satellite launch site is Fort Churchill in
>> Manitoba, near Hudson Bay, where hundreds of small research rockets
>> have been launched in the past."
>>
>> For those who were/are interested, this latest story can be found at:
>> <http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2010/03/28/13385886.html>
>>
>> The focus no longer appears to be on tourism although it is mentioned
>> in the article.  Monitoring Arctic sovereignty is also listed as a
>> potential reason for having a spaceport.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> - Scott.
>>
>> PS - Some context from the ~2.5 year old conversation:
>>      
> I guess the location is fine for sending up satelites that are supposed
> to do polar orbits.  It would be an awful location for launching
> geostationary stuff from, not that those are any good at monitoring
> Canada. :)
>
>    
My impression is they wanted to do sub orbital stuff over Canadian 
territory.  Quebec too!  ;-)

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