Canada's first orbital-class rocket engine is now being manufactured! Our patent pending Hadfield-150 engine is the largest and most powerful rocket engine ever built in Canada, and the first known Canadian orbital-class engine to make it to this stage. The Hadfield-150 builds on everything we learned after years of... painstakingly designing, manufacturing, and testing the Hadfield-10 series, our first regeneratively cooled and additively manufactured liquid rocket engine. Every engine test, both successful and unsuccessful on our Darkhorse test stand at Area 66, retired risk that's now carried straight into Hadfield-150 and sovereign orbital launch for Canada. A few details about the Hadfield-150 engine series: ✅ Designed to power Tundra and Tundra+, our light and medium-lift launch vehicles, and built to scale to Tempest, our larger reusable medium lift vehicle ✅ Manufactured entirely in-house, from design to print to test, for true sovereign launch capability ✅ Produced at Rocket Factory 1, on our expanding fleet of metal additive manufacturing systems at the AMA Lab, including the largest known metal 3D printer in Canada ✅ Designed for reusability and medium-lift scale from the outset, and built to significantly cut the time, infrastructure, manufacturing and cost iterative engine testing usually requires, with room to scale to even larger engines by leveraging the same design ✅ Capable of engine-out functionality, so losing one on an early flight doesn't have to mean losing the mission ✅ Optimized for Canada's Launch the North initiative, to deliver sovereign operational capability in a time and cost efficient manner Initial testing starts later this year at our new Blackhawk orbital engine test cell at Area 66, our private test range in Ontario. Stacked, integrated vehicle testing comes later at the Atlantic Spaceport Complex, our spaceport in Newfoundland and Labrador. Stay tuned for some exciting and fiery milestones ahead! 🚀🇨🇦 National Defence Defence Research and Development Canada Canadian Space Agency Transport Canada NGen Canadashow more

Orbital launch is entirely different from procuring fighter jets, submarines, tanks, etc. A nation typically owns those reusable assets once procured, and they contribute to their sovereign capacity for decades. Orbital launch doesn’t work that way, and for launch to be truly sovereign and a reliable long term capability, it needs to be made in Canada. There are no shortcuts. That requires doing the hard parts first, not last, and that’s what we’re doing at NordSpace every day. We’re builders, and this milestone is something our nation should be incredibly proud of. Way to go Team NordSpace 🇨🇦🚀

@bourassa3232 I hope you can dedicate a channel to cover every launch. It would be great if the entire country could follow the development of Canada's space launch capabilities in real time. The impact on STEM interest in the youngest Canadians may be transformative.

@bourassa3232 We have loads of great content on our channel already!

Love the name. 🇨🇦

The Hadfield-150? Is it from the name of the well known @Cmdr_Hadfield from @csa_asc? I really wish it was. 😁🇨🇦

So far, it looks as impressive as Canadas launch pad.

Light years behind everyone else. Embarrassing

Good on ya by why did those 🇺🇸 carpetbaggers and scammers MLS get DND when they have nor will ever have rockets

Named after Chris Hadfield?

Super awesome! I'm a Canadian space nerd, and I've been so excited to see NordSpace build Canadian rockets. Tell me you guys are going to stream launches.

What are the specs for this engine? Where is your test site (Area 66) specifically in Ontario? How much money are you receiving form the government (all levels)? These are all questions that the public want to know.

We can’t reveal all specifications, but broadly it is a ~150 kN class engine, running kerosene and liquid oxygen, with dual combustion chambers. Area 66 is a secure private site, but the addresses for our headquarters and spaceport are public. We’ve received about $10M CAD in total to date, most of it is from Launch the North $8.3M CAD. This total is a small fraction of the overall capital we’ve raised and invested through non-government sources. Significant capital is privately invested by the company’s founder @astrorahul_ We hope these answers help.

Y’all using liquid methane ?

Interesting 🤔 let me know when you're going to launch something, I hope that you take us along for the ride, I'm very interested in seeing what you do and don't have already and if you are capable of becoming something of interest in this space.

Excited!

Congratulations NordSpace. Things are looking up.

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Is it really named after our Commander Chris Hadfield @Cmdr_Hadfield? I hope it is! Can’t wait to see it take off! 🇨🇦 🚀

I'm a Canadian building for a lower orbital-class.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Hey NordSpace and Taiga? Launch???

This could be a game changer.

I designed the control system and software for a laser micro machining system- it’s interesting that all the visual effects are mainly plasma from vaporized metal - controlling for the diffusion of the laser through the plasma is fun. 😁