After two years of designing, building, and testing, NordSpace was just 58 seconds away from its dream of flight. That dream will have to wait a little longer.

The Markham, Ont.-based aerospace startup was forced to delay the first suborbital flight of its Taiga rocket today, which would have marked the first-ever commercial rocket launch from Canadian soil.

“It happens! It’s literally rocket science.”

An erroneous trigger of the rocket’s ignition safety system just under a minute from takeoff was the last and final setback that pushed NordSpace outside of its planned launch window. With a launch license expiring this evening, the company posted to social media that it would be taking “a few days to rest” before starting the process again.

“It happens! It’s literally rocket science,” N

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