NordSpace Rahul Goel, CEO - "Canada's Brown Elon Musk" $10M Start Up Funding - Boosted by New Brunswick's Brian Gallant KC Space Canada CEO

 

At the edge of the Atlantic Ocean.. St. Lawrence, Newfoundland, with U of T wunderkid Rahul Goel, CEO and his colleague ... 

Lakshmanan Velappan, Chief Propulsion Engineer

here:  NordSpace Conversation - Lakshmanan Velappan, Chief Propulsion Engineer - YouTube

"Sep 28, 2025

NordSpace's CEO/Founder, Rahul Goel, had a friendly conversation with Lakshmanan Velappan before their second launch attempt of the Taiga test rocket from the Atlantic Spaceport Complex (ASX) outside St. Lawrence, Newfoundland and Labrador. They discussed the extremely slim margins involved in professional rocket design, the 70 pages of checklists required to launch Taiga, and reminisced about the origins of NordSpace."

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NordSpace - CSLC 2026 - Rahul Goel (NordSpace) - Building Canada into a Spacefaring Nation

 At this link:  CSLC 2026 – Rahul Goel (NordSpace) – Building Canada into a Spacefaring Nation

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Watch Rahul Goel (CEO & Founder, NordSpace) deliver his updates about NordSpace's progress and goals at the 2026 Canadian Space Launch Conference. The keynote spanned rocket development, spaceport construction, satellite and robotic missions, strategic investments, and a 25 year vision for Canada's future in space. 🏗️ The existential necessity for a space launch company to pursue vertical integration to develop a commercially viable and scalable capability that is sovereign itself, to reliably support a sovereign launch program for the country. 📈 NordSpace’s three phase plan to evolve from pathfinder missions and developments, to scaled manufacturing and production, and ultimately internalized launch cadence and gains. Resulting in a highly competitive cost structure that only the convergence of a company’s carefully planned launch systems and space systems divisions can enable. 🚀 NordSpace’s rapid advancements in its rocket systems, ranging from scaling engine technology to the orbital regime with our patent pending Hadfield-150 engine, growing our advanced manufacturing capabilities in metal additive and automated composites for primary structures, engine testing and test facilities, and more. 💫 The Atlantic Spaceport Complex (ASX), NordSpace’s private spaceport in Newfoundland and Labrador, and recent advancements including active construction at SLC-02, environmental approvals, aeronautical studies, spaceport design in preparation for Tundra’s first flight, and community collaborations. 🏭 NordSpace’s new campus, a 60,000 sqft facility that we are moving into this month to expand our team to 235 employees over the coming years, while adding significant capabilities in vertically integrated manufacturing, assembly, and testing of our rockets and spacecraft. 🛰️ Updates on NordSpace's first satellite, Terra Nova, launching to space later this year to demonstrate key in-house developed hardware and software for wildfire monitoring, Arctic surveillance, and space domain awareness. The mission uses our edge-AI imaging payload, Chronos, and will test secondary systems such as key components of our Athena bus and our Zephyr-EP in-space thruster. 🌖 Our new lunar program, starting with Canada’s first lunar rover named TERRY, fully privately financed and built by NordSpace, arriving at the surface of the Moon late 2027. This mission will expand into a high cadence of hosted payload lunar rover missions with TERRY+ starting in 2028. 💵 Announcing several new investments, including over $20M in new strategic investments in manufacturing and spaceport infrastructure, and NordSpace Ventures with several new investments in Canadian space and defence startups. 👩‍🚀 NordSpace’s 25 year vision for Canada’s future in space from interplanetary missions to manned spaceflight.

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