As US relations fray, Canada gets serious about its own launch industry
摘要
随着美加关系紧张，加拿大政府开始重新评估在商品和服务上对美国的依赖，包括自主进入太空的能力。今年春季，政府首次向NordSpace、Reaction Dynamics和Canada Rocket Company三家公司授予合同，支持其研发“轻型运载”火箭。此前，加拿大发射产业规模有限，未受广泛关注。
A year or two ago, a few Canadian launch companies were trying to develop small rockets, but if we're being frank, the industry was not particularly notable. Sure, something interesting might eventually happen, but no one outside of a few Canadian space geeks was paying much attention.
But then the Trump Administration started threatening and instituting tariffs. There was talk of making Canada the 51st state. And pretty much every Canadian I know began telling me how enraged they were at their neighbors to the south. It's hard to blame them.
This has led the Canadian government to reassess all manner of areas where it had previously been happy to rely largely on the US government and American companies for goods and services. This included sovereign access to space. So this spring, the government announced the first awards to three companies—NordSpace, Reaction Dynamics, and Canada Rocket Company—to support work on rockets with "light lift" capability.
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