Federal cabinet minister and Nova Scotia MP Sean Fraser announced in Halifax Friday that the two countries have negotiated a Technology Safeguards Agreement, which would allow the use of U.S. space launch technology, expertise and data for space launches in Canada. Maritime Launch has a 40-year lease for about 135 hectares of provincial Crown land, where it intends to build its launch pad. Matier said Maritime Launch is now developing a launch pad that it will lease to clients who bring their own rockets. Members of the group Action Against the Canso Spaceport hold placards that read "We say no to the Canso spaceport." ABOUT THE AUTHOR Taryn Grant (new window) · CBC News · Reporter Taryn Grant covers daily news for CBC Nova Scotia, with a particular interest in housing and homelessness, education, and health care.
