Maritime Launch Services
| Private | |
| Industry | Aerospace |
| Founded | 2016 |
| Headquarters | Nova Scotia, Canada 45°20′02″N 60°59′43″W / 45.333889°N 60.995278°WCoordinates: 45°20′02″N 60°59′43″W / 45.333889°N 60.995278°W |
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Key people
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John Isella (CEO) Steve Matier (President and Spaceport Development) |
| Products | Cyclone-4M launch service |
| Services | Orbital rocket launch |
| Website | www |
Maritime Launch Services (MLS) is a Canadian space transport services company founded in 2016 and headquartered in Nova Scotia, Canada. MLS relies on Ukranian Cyclone-4M rockets by Yuzhnoye to launch polar and sun synchronous orbit from Canso, Nova Scotia. MLS is a joint venture of three U.S.-based firms.
On March 14, 2017, MLS selected Canso, Nova Scotia as MLS's launch site. Construction is slated to begin in 2018 on the $110 million rocket spaceport that will be used to launch commercial satellites into space as early as 2020. The site will include a launch pad and a processing building, as well as a control centre positioned three kilometres away. It will be the only operational spaceport in Canada, after the abandonment of the Churchill Rocket Research Range in the 1990s, and the first commercial spaceport in the country.
MLS hopes to launch eight rockets annually by 2022 with two launch options. Option 1 is a Sun-synchronous orbit launch between 600-800 km, for smaller satellites, with a payload up to 3350 kg for US$45 million. Option 2 is a Low Earth Orbit launch, below 600 km in altitude, that will allow a payload up to 5000 kg also for US$45 million.
MLS relies on Ukranian 2-stage Cyclone-4M rockets by Yuzhnoye Design Office. It uses a Zenit-derived first stage powered by four unspecified Ukrainian-built Kerosone/LOX engines and upper stage stack developed for the original hypergolic Cyclone 4 rocket.
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