Sandwiched between a cleaning supply warehouse and a business that sells the materials to make window blinds is the Etobicoke office of the Canada Rocket Company (CRC). It looks like a Hollywood set of a scrappy aerospace startup. Everywhere you turn, a new whiteboard appears, invariably full of hastily scrawled equations and rough schematic sketches that look like gibberish to the untrained eye. The prize jewel of the space: a fancy water cooler that can dispense flavoured water.
It is here that the nine-month-old startup is doggedly pursuing its goal of becoming Canada’s answer to SpaceX.
Moving to the large open-air garage, you see more whiteboards with workers standing in front of them making additions, several intimidating-looking workstations, and various pieces of metal lying around. In the centre of it all is a large 3D-printed model of a rocket booster prototype, which towers over the area like a black plastic monolith. Over the next two-or-so years, the CRC team plans to build nine engines for real, which will be used for its first rocket tests, slated for 2028.
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