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| Company type | Corporation |
|---|---|
| Industry | Aerospace |
| Founded | 1999 |
| Headquarters | , Canada |
Area served | North America |
| Products | Rocket, spacecraft |
| Services | Tourism |
The Canadian Arrow was a privately funded, early-2000s rocket and space tourism project concept founded by London, Ontario, Canada entrepreneurs Geoff Sheerin, Dan McKibbon and Chris Corke. The project's objective was to take the first civilians into space, on a vertical sub-orbital spaceflight reaching an altitude of 112 km.
Canadian Arrow was considered one of the top three candidates for the X-Prize competition[citation needed], along with Scaled Composites (Burt Rutan), and Armadillo Aerospace (John Carmack). Scaled Composites won the competition on October 4, 2004.
The Canadian Arrow team's motto was "making SPACE for you". They completed the first series of tests on their 57,000 lbf (254 kN) thrust engine and built a space training centre and a full-scale mock-up of their rocket. After an open nomination process, they also recruited a team of six astronauts from around the world, including several seasoned military pilots and a NASA-trained astronaut from Ukraine. Astronaut candidates – the group "Arrow Six" included David Ballinger, Ted Gow, Terry Wong, Jason Dyer, Larry Clark and Yaroslav "Yarko" Pustovyi, the only member of the team with actual space training.[1]
In November 2010 Geoff Sheerin, the president of Canadian Arrow stated the company was unlikely to fly a Canadian Arrow rocket as a space tourism vehicle.[2]
The Canadian Arrow never flew a crewed or uncrewed flight.