The province will soon be the site of a $110-million rocket spaceport that will be used to launch commercial satellites into space as early as 2020. But why was this remote Nova Scotia community selected? "You'll be able to see [a rocket launch] pretty far down the Eastern Shore," he said. considered for space hubNova Scotia has been considered previously as a site for rocket launches. In 2010, the Canadian Space Agency was also looking at Cape Breton as a possible site to blast small satellites into orbit using a rocket launch system.

Source: CBC News March 14, 2017 11:13 UTC