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For years, NordSpace has been building towards one goal: launching Canadian payloads on Canadian rockets from Canadian soil in a way that’s technologically scalable and commercially sustainable through painstaking vertical integration. Today, that vision is rapidly taking shape and we are pleased to share this inspiring video preview of what Canada’s historic first sovereign orbital space launch will look like. Enjoy! Tundra is NordSpace’s domestically designed, built, and operated light-lift responsive orbital rocket. It can carry up to 1,100 kg fully optimized to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) powered by our proprietary Hadfield rocket engines that are 3D-printed, regeneratively cooled, and pump fed representing the most powerful orbital-class propulsion system in Canada. The modular architecture means the same engine powers both the multi-engine first stage and the vacuum-optimized second stage, reducing complexity while creating a direct scaling path toward our future reusable Titan medium-lift vehicle, capable of 5,000+ kg to LEO. The Atlantic Spaceport Complex (ASX), under construction in Newfoundland and Labrador, is positioned at 46 degrees latitude providing launch access to polar, sun-synchronous, and mid-inclination orbits with the widest range of nominal launch inclinations of any Canadian spaceport. It’s the only fully Canadian-owned and purpose-built commercial orbital launch facility in the country with the highest approved launch cadence and safety distances allowing us to maximize the efficiency, reliability, scalability, and unit economics of our entire launch program. What distinguishes NordSpace is our commitment to vertical integration and first principles approach to business and technology. Rockets, spaceport, and spacecraft are all designed, manufactured, and operated in Canada by one streamlined team. We have already demonstrated flight-ready propulsion, completed integrated rocket tests, and have our first pathfinder satellite, Terra Nova, manifested for launch in 2026 with our edge-AI imaging payload (Chronos) for space domain awareness nd our electric propulsion system (Zephyr-EP). With recently announced $8.3 million in Phase 1 federal funding through the Department of National Defence’s Launch the North initiative, NordSpace is targeting Initial Operational Capability by 2028. Canada is about to become a true spacefaring nation, and our future on Earth and in space will never be the same. Let’s give’r! 🇨🇦🚀 @NationalDefence @DRDC_RDDC @csa_asc

This is a carrier's market. There are zero signs that things are cooling, in fact, in recent days the market has firmed significantly. Many traffic managers at shippers have not seen a carrier's market and are unprepared. If they have refused rate concessions, they will find themselves without trucks this spring.

@GovCanHealth Hello, Can you please advise when we will be able to begin using the Hearing Aid functions of our Apple AirPods? Currently available and proven cost effective solution for the hearing impaired which only awaits your approval so we can access and use here in Canada? 🇨🇦

Happy Supply Chain Sunday! For our 8th Supply Chain Sunday, SCN is sharing 12 Intralogistics & MH Engineering accounts from X. com! See replies for their @X handles! Follow those new to you & reply to suggest other Intralogistics & MH Engineering X accounts not on list!

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What happens when mobile manipulators go on a grid❓ This week Brightpick announced Gridpicker, its new robotic system for high-throughput applications. Combining AI-powered mobile manipulation with a high-density grid design, Gridpicker achieves up to 2x the throughput of shuttle systems at 40% lower cost and using 5x less labor. Most fascinating: The cost of Gridpicker DECREASES as automation increases 🤯 Traditional systems separate storage and picking. If you want more robotic picking, you add expensive robotic cells, more infrastructure, and more complexity. Gridpicker was designed differently: Each robot both retrieves items and picks them. The greater the share of robotically pickable items: The more productive each robot becomes The fewer robots are needed The lower the cost per order That means progress in AI and VLAs directly translate into better system economics over time. Hats off to @janz1zka that! 👏 ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news → ziegler.substack.com

🚨JUST IN: Dalilah’s Law passed @TransportGOP and is headed to the house floor. I’m extremely grateful to our strong House Republican leadership, for putting American lives first, and for sweet Dalilah Coleman and her father, Marcus Coleman spearheading this monumental change in trucking safety.   @RepDavidRouzer’s bill, Dalilah’s Law, is simple: 🗣️ NO English, NO license 🚛 States must verify CDLs aren’t issued to illegal immigrants 👮‍♂️ More penalties for states that failed to comply including federal funding being withheld

Meet the fleet! Now almost 100 vehicles strong, our Robotaxi Engineering Fleet is gathering diverse real-world data and testing autonomous driving in multiple U.S. cities and states ahead of the launch of our autonomous ride-hail service. This is what responsible and scalable autonomy deployment looks like. Driven by Nuro, built by @LucidMotors, available exclusively on @Uber. #DrivenByNuro #SelfDriving #AutonomousVehicles

REALLY pumped by the growing Supply Chain activity and accounts here on @X! Every few minutes seeing first posts in awhile from Supply Chain accounts I’ve been following since joining in February 2009! Why don’t you join us follow @SupplyChainNtwk, give us a shoutout! Cheers!

In just one month, over 50,000 of your industry peers will head to Atlanta for the biggest supply chain event of the year. This is your chance to learn from 200+ educational seminars and discover groundbreaking innovations. Register for free today: ow.ly/lxi950YuHHc

Visualized: Marine Shipping ⚓️ Oil Tankers by size, name and global function 🛢️ ULCC - Ultra Large Crude VLCC - Very Large Crude Smax - Suezmax Amax - Aframax Pmax - Panamax #supplychain #logistics #marinetransport

Supply chains and value chains matter more than we think- the charts below illustrate why: Drone example A modern drone is not a single product. It is an entire value chain. From sensors and avionics to propulsion systems, communication networks, software, weapons integration, and launch infrastructure, drone production connects multiple high-tech industries. Each subsystem activates a different industrial capability: * electronics * aerospace manufacturing * advanced materials * telecommunications * software and AI * defence engineering In other words, drone production is not just defence manufacturing, it is a complex industrial ecosystem. Source: @Rabobank by Wouter Remmen

Happy 24th Birthday to SpaceX! 🚀 24 years ago yesterday - March 14, 2002 - @ElonMusk founded @SpaceX. Perfect time now to IPO the world’s most innovative company so humans can own a piece of this extraterrestrial future!

Really exciting news from @ElonMusk on the TeraFab Project! Cheers! The TeraFab Project (also stylized as Terafab) is Tesla’s ambitious initiative to build a massive, in-house semiconductor fabrication facility (“fab”) for producing advanced AI chips at enormous scale. Announced by Elon Musk, it aims to address future supply constraints from external foundries (like TSMC or Samsung) by achieving vertical integration. The “Tera” prefix signals capacity far beyond typical “Giga”-scale facilities, potentially targeting hundreds of billions of chips annually to power Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD), Optimus robots, Dojo supercomputers, and related AI efforts. Key points include: • Integrating logic chips, memory, and advanced packaging in one domestic (U.S.-based) plant. • Musk announced on March 14, 2026, that the project “launches in 7 days” (around March 21, 2026). • It supports Tesla’s custom AI chip designs (e.g., fifth-generation chips for autonomy).

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Are you a Finance professional in Transportation, Third Party Logistics, Supply Chain or Carrier organization? If so you may be interested in joining the newly formed Transportation & Supply Chain Finance Professionals Group (T&SCF)! Cheers! lnkd.in/gZbTN2bA

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Trying to decide best nickname for the person who’s bringing the singularity to life right before our eyes… @ElonMusk These are my two favourites so far, which do you like better?

CFOs: Freight invoicing remains one of the least controlled financial processes in the enterprise. The core issue isn’t dispute management. It’s invoice accuracy at creation. lnkd.in/grsHMrCk