During the week of July 5, BBA’s David LeFrancois was at the spaceport in Canso Nova Scotia as a member of the Launch Canada team to launch York University’s Goose 3 two-stage rocket. The event was hosted by Maritime Launch Services. The first few days involved traveling to the launch site and setup in preparation for the …
In early April BBA’s David LeFrancois visited Canada’s first commercial spaceport in Canso Nova Scotia as a member of the Launch Canada delegation. The visit involved touring the launch site, setting up a launch rail, and testing out the launch control system that will be used for an inaugural launch from the spaceport in July. …
We travelled to Florida to attend Lockheed Martin’s Mission Briefing at KSC on Monday, November 14, 2022. Following the briefing we were able to visit the launch pad. Then on November 16, 2022 Artemis 1 launched. It is an unmanned mission to lunar orbit and back to gather data on deep space travel and daily …
While on the space coast we saw a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch the Galaxy 31 and Galaxy 32 commercial communications satellites from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Saturday November 12, 2022. We stayed nearby on a boat at Cocoa Beach for a few days.
We have made several trips to Cochrane Ontario to promote and develop aviation, rocketry, and spaceflight in Northern Ontario over the last year. Initial visit and meetings Northern Space Event 2021 Rockets on Ice/Space Centre Opening These were the key local events leading up to the inaugural Stardust Festival, a co-sponsored event with Launch Canada. …
