Is This a Joke? Canada’s ‘Spaceport’ Is as Impressive as it Military Might

Canada is very proud to have opened its own spaceport, making it the next world power with direct access to the wonders of the universe.

Only…Iran and North Korea have infinitely more impressive space launch capabilities than our wonderful neighbor to the north. 

LOL IM DEAD 😂☠️

This is AN ACTUAL broadcast from the Canadian “spaceport” in Nova Scotia.

Bro the rocket is like a hobby rocket and its a concrete pad! pic.twitter.com/RugGNCGHVe

— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) April 22, 2026

Yes, that is real, as is that rocket, which looks even less capable than many hobbyist rockets you can see take off from the desert southwest. 

I promise I am not joking…

This is Canada’s spaceport.

Last month, the federal government paid $200 million to a company called Maritime Launch Services to lease it for 10 years. pic.twitter.com/gftQk7u319

— Peter McCaffrey (@peteremcc) April 22, 2026

At first, I couldn’t even see the rocket until I realized it was on that…what exactly is that? A launch tower that 2-3 people could erect in a few minutes? It looks a lot smaller than the old Phoenix air-to-air missile around which the F-14 was built. Granted, that was a HELL of a missile in its day, but…really? I doubt that the vehicle on that launch…tower?…is capable of reaching the Kármán line, no less orbit. 

No doubt they can do better. I hope. But…geez. 

Little more than a concrete shed pad at the end of a gravel road with two sea cans, Maritime Launch’s “Spaceport Nova Scotia” was recently lavished $20 million a year for 10 years by our federal government to further develop its  facility, and as it now boasts to investors — send rockets into space on “150+” launch days a year. 

My home is not an isolated residence. I have a neighbour across the street, who also has a neighbour next door, and so on. Our hospital and nursing home are a stone’s throw away. Eleven hundred people live within five and a half kilometres of the Maritime Launch Services (MLS) launch pad.

Hmm. Pretty sure nobody lives quite that close to any launch facility I have ever heard of. 

Because ROCKETS ARE LOUD AND DANGEROUS. Except…well, those aren’t exactly rockets, are they? Perhaps they can build something that can reach orbit and remain safe, but if so, it is probably being carried aloft by a helium balloon before takeoff. 

Today, we introduced the Canadian Space Launch Act. 🇨🇦

This legislation will deliver sovereign space launch capabilities to Canada and help create a new $40 billion space launch industry in Canada.

We’ve reached the moon, but now we can launch Canadian rockets from home. pic.twitter.com/NhTHINAz2r

— Steven MacKinnon (@stevenmackinnon) April 21, 2026

Today, we introduced the Canadian Space Launch Act. 🇨🇦

This legislation will deliver sovereign space launch capabilities to Canada and help create a new $40 billion space launch industry in Canada. 

We’ve reached the moon, but now we can launch Canadian rockets from home.

It turns out that this “spaceport” could be a giant money-laundering scheme, given its heritage. It is, I kid you not, a joint American/Ukrainian venture, and will fire Ukrainian rockets. Now I don’t hate Ukraine or anything, but Ukraine and money laundering go together like peas and carrots. 

MLS’s current Chair of the Board, Sasha Jacob, had his membership (Jacob Securities Inc) suspended in 2017 from Canada’s national regulator of investment dealers (IIROC), for misconduct citing “numerous deficiencies and its prolonged and pervasive inability to meet basic compliance and regulatory standards put the public at risk of imminent harm.” An attempt to resign from IIROC membership by Jacob was denied and Jacob’s membership was officially revoked in a court decision in 2019.

In 2022, MLS entered the stock market in a reverse takeover deal by Jaguar Financial Corporation making Sasha Jacob majority shareholder. Jacob Securities Inc. ceased operations, and Jacob Capital Management was formed, providing “advisory services” not regulated by the IIROC. (Note the IIROC changed its name to become the CIRO in June 2023.)

A lot of the people involved have a…sketchy history. Some have defrauded NASA, others have defrauded investors. Yet that hasn’t stopped the Canadian government from handing over $200 million for a concrete pad. 

🚨 BREAKING: Canada just spent $200 million on a “spaceport.”

It’s just a gravel pad near Canso, Nova Scotia.

For context, SpaceX spent $200 million building Starbase, a full orbital launch facility with multiple pads, a rocket factory, and a catching tower.

We have a 10 year… pic.twitter.com/bFIQdSK7MX

— Mario Zelaya (@mario4thenorth) April 22, 2026

Perhaps the Canadian government officials who made this outrageously stupid deal aren’t laundering money. But then again, they probably are. The rockets they intend to launch don’t actually exist yet. 

A project of the Ukrainian Space Agency, MLS was created specifically to launch the Cyclone 4M, a rocket designed by Yuzhnoye, the Ukrainian agency’s design and business office.

Despite claims for years that they were “maturing the launch vehicle,” this rocket has never been built. 

The Ukrainian Space Agency suffered a series of losses due to ongoing scandals, mismanagement, malfeasance and corruption Among them was a spectacularly failed 10-year project in Brazil, and allegations of deals with North Korea,  a breach of contract case with Boeing that would cost them USD $200 million, and the theft of over $10 million from Export Development Canada funds provided in a deal with MDA, a scam that would span 2011-2017. 

Despite this history, in 2017 the Government of Canada, including then President of the Canadian Space Agency, Sylvain LaPorte, signed an agreement to “co-operate in space.”

Sylvain LaPorte now sits on the MLS Board of Directors.

It is not impossible for Ukraine to build rockets capable of achieving orbit. It has done so using Russian technology, and, as we have seen during the current war, its engineers are clever and resourceful. 

But… there is no Ukrainian rocket to launch, so this ‘spaceport’ has pivoted to providing launch services for rockets that customers will bring on their own. Which begs the question: just who wants a bare concrete launchpad to launch satellites? Perhaps hobbyists and students, but no company with real money on the line would look at this “world-class” facility and be eager to risk tens or hundreds of millions of investment launching from there. 

Business isn’t exactly booming. Revenue for the facility in 2025 was just under $15,000, Canadian. That works out to about $11,000 real dollars.

That $20 million/year sure looks good to them. But why, exactly, does it look good to the Canadian government?

Good question. 

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