Building Canada’s Sovereign Launch Ecosystem
Turning technology readiness into deployable capability.
Coordinating domestic flight validation across suborbital, high-altitude, high-velocity, and microgravity environments.
Canada funds innovation but lacks repeatable, domestic pathways to validate technologies under real flight conditions.
Without this, deployment stalls and value leaves the country.
Our mission is clear:
Canada funds innovation but lacks repeatable, domestic pathways to validate technologies under real flight conditions.
Without this, deployment stalls and value leaves the country.
Our mission is clear:
To enable SMEs and applied researchers to validate and scale critical technologies from Canadian soil.
Why Now?
Canada is in an active infrastructure cycle, and the validation pathways structured now will shape where technologies mature and where long-term value accumulates.
Late-stage validation is where research becomes deployable capability; when it occurs outside Canada, mission data, IP, and economic return follow.
Formalizing coordinated domestic validation capacity now ensures Canadian innovation translates into sovereign capability and retained national benefit.
Space as a Sovereign Capability
Space, including -space-based intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, space domain awareness, satellite communications, and space launch under the new Canadian Defence Industrial Strategy is considered to be one of Canada's Key Sovereign Capabilities.
Rising Defence & ITB Momentum
Canada’s growth in defence spending and Industrial & Technological Benefits (ITB) programs is creating a major opportunity to fund sovereign launch infrastructure and accelerate aerospace innovation.
Sovereignty & Security in the North
Strengthening Canada’s ability to defend the Arctic and maintain independent flight-test and launch capability has never been more critical.
Expanding Market Demand
From advanced robotics and hypersonics to medicine, propulsion and climate science, global demand for technologies that can rapidly advance from lab to market is accelerating.
The SIC Solution
Space Innovation Canada (SIC) is an independent, federally incorporated non-profit.
We act as a governed execution layer, enabling technologies to move from development into real-world validation while retaining data, talent, and downstream value in Canada.
Our role is to coordinate the elements required for late-stage validation.
We do not develop technologies or vehicles.
We provide the governed environment in which they are tested, validated, and advanced.
Governed access to flight testing environments
Operational capability and execution discipline
Data continuity and learning
Experienced workforce
Aligned Capital
The Validation Gap:
A National Challenge
Canada produces world-class technologies but lacks coordinated domestic pathways to advance them through late-stage validation and operational readiness.
Fragmented infrastructure, reliance on foreign testing, discontinuous data retention, limited workforce immersion, and misaligned funding stall progress where performance must be proven for commercialization.
When validation occurs abroad, mission data, operational learning, supply chain integration, IP retention, workforce development, and downstream economic value follow. Public investment succeeds technically but compounds economically elsewhere, diluting long-term industrial growth.
As investment in dual-use and defence technologies accelerates, execution capacity becomes decisive. Structured domestic validation pathways in extreme environments ensure rising investment translates into deployable capability and retained national benefit.
Canada needs a coordinated execution layer that converts research strength into deployable capability on Canadian soil.
Why Now
Canada is in an active infrastructure cycle, and the validation pathways structured now will shape where technologies mature and where long-term value accumulates.
Late-stage validation is where research becomes deployable capability; when it occurs outside Canada, mission data, IP, and economic return follow.
Formalizing coordinated domestic validation capacity now ensures Canadian innovation translates into sovereign capability and retained national benefit.
Space as a Sovereign Capability
Space, including -space-based intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, space domain awareness, satellite communications, and space launch under the new Canadian Defence Industrial Strategy is considered to be one of Canada's Key Sovereign Capabilities.
Rising Defence & ITB Momentum
Canada’s expanding defence investment and Industrial & Technological Benefits programs are reinforcing the need for sovereign validation capacity aligned with long-term execution.
Sovereignty & Security in the North
Strengthening Canada’s ability to defend the Arctic and maintain independent flight-test and launch capability has never been more critical.
Expanding Market Demand
From advanced robotics and hypersonics to medicine, propulsion and climate science, global demand for technologies that can rapidly advance from lab to market is accelerating.
Partnerships
We are proud to partner with ConvergX® Xpand™ and the Alberta–Yukon commercialization corridor with Arctic Training Centre, linking Canadian innovation to validation pathways and global procurement networks.
Open to New Collaborations
We collaborate with organizations and individuals committed to building Canada’s domestic validation and deployment capacity. Together, we develop structured, repeatable pathways that convert Canadian innovation into operational capability while retaining data, talent, and long-term economic benefit in Canada.
The Systemic Solution:
SIC's ACDC Approach
Space Innovation Canada is a non profit building a governed execution layer built on four integrated pillars that enable accessible, repeatable real-world validation.
Access
Who can test, when, and under what conditions through governed validation pathways, readiness thresholds, and coordinated regulatory sequencing.
Capability
Coordinated suborbital, high-altitude, high velocity and microgravity testing environments, mission operations, safety systems, telemetry, and range services required for real-world validation.
Data
Ensure mission data is captured, retained, and reused to compound operational learning and strengthen commercialization.
Capital
Aligned public, private, ITB, philanthropic, and sponsor funding so teams can execute validation campaigns, not just design technologies.
What Space Innovation Canada Enables
Space Innovation Canada is a non-profit designed to strengthen Canada’s ability to validate, deploy, and scale critical technologies through coordinated national execution.
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National Execution Capacity
Shared infrastructure and repeatable flight validation that converts research investment into operational capability. -
Sovereign Data & Institutional Learning
Mission data and operational knowledge that compound across programs and generations of technology. -
Workforce & Industry Development
Hands-on validation campaigns that build experienced talent, validated suppliers, and durable supply chains. -
Regional & Indigenous Participation
Distributed participation in advanced aerospace programs and long-term economic pathways. -
Defence & Allied Interoperability
A trusted validation node supporting continental security and allied collaboration. -
Commercialization & Company Formation
Affordable access to real-world testing that enables SMEs and applied research to scale and attract investment.
Board Members
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Advisory Board
Michael LaRocque
Scout Engineering
Role at SIC: Indigenous Engagement
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