Canada’s
aerospace, maritime and defense tech industry,
in focus.

Launch Vehicle Safety Issues

20.2% of this theme group

Researchers highlight failure modes and disposal challenges for space launch vehicles.

Launch vehicle (89) · Aeronautics (45) · Aerospace engineering (44) · Space launch (37)

Analysis of Space Launch Vehicle Failures and Post-Mission Disposal Statistics

Reliability products for Space Launch Vehicle safety assessments

Space Launch System Affordability

19.5% of this theme group

Studies examine cost, strategy, and engineering trade‑offs for modern launch systems.

Space launch (66) · Aeronautics (46) · Space (39) · CubeSat (13)

NASA's Space Launch System: Systems Engineering Approach for Affordability and Mission Success

Space Launch Capabilities and National Strategy Considerations

Aerodynamic and Acoustic Loads

15.4% of this theme group

Works focus on lift‑off flow fields, noise, and aero‑acoustic mitigation for launch vehicles.

Aerospace engineering (42) · Aeronautics (34) · Hypersonic speed (7) · Launch vehicle (27)

Flow Field and Acoustic Investigations of the Launch Vehicle Environment during Lift-off

Aeroacoustic Improvements during Lift-off of Launch Vehicles

Liquid‑Propellant Engine Instabilities

13.1% of this theme group

Papers address combustion instability mechanisms and control techniques for liquid rockets.

Liquid-propellant rocket (52) · Propellant (33) · Rocket engine (39) · Rocket (38)

Perspective of Technology for Liquid Rocket Engines

Combustion Instabilities and its Control Techniques for Liquid Propellant Rocket Engine

Policy and Industry Governance

11.9% of this theme group

Analyses discuss legal, political, and competitive challenges facing the space sector.

Space (61) · Government (35) · Space industry (13) · Accountability (10)

Title IV Space Resource Exploration and Utilization of the US Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act: A Legal and Political Assessment

Commercial Space Transportation: Industry Trends, Government Challenges, and International Competitiveness Issues

Hybrid Rocket Propulsion Gaps

11.0% of this theme group

Research surveys theoretical and practical issues in hybrid rocket engine design.

Rocket (51) · Rocket engine (37) · Propulsion (16) · Spacecraft propulsion (9)

Theoretical Investigation on Feedback Control of Hybrid Rocket Engines

Review on Hybrid Rocket Engine: Past, Present and Future Scenario

Combustion Chamber and Nozzle Modeling

9.0% of this theme group

Studies present simulations and experiments on rocket combustion chambers and nozzle flows.

Combustion (17) · Nozzle (12) · Combustion chamber (12) · Rocket (23)

Numerical Simulations of a Single Injector Gaseous Methane Rocket Combustion Chamber

Experimental Validation of Nozzle Flow Simulations for Rocket Application Rotating Detonation Engines

Launch Environment Risks

21.5% of this theme group

Authors caution about lightning, cost thresholds, and other hazards affecting launch operations.

Space launch (33) · Space (19) · Satellite (10) · Launched (13)

Investigation on improvements in lightning retest criteria for spacecraft

Launch Cost Thresholds for Economic Activity

Combustion Instability Concerns

21.5% of this theme group

Works warn of high‑frequency instabilities in both hybrid and liquid‑propellant rockets.

Rocket (42) · Rocket engine (38) · Combustion (22) · Liquid-propellant rocket (24)

Experimental Characterization of Combustion Instabilities in High-Mass-Flux Hybrid Rocket Engines

Experimental Validation of Off-design Combustion for Liquid-propellant Rocket Engine High-frequency Instability

Trajectory Optimization Limits

18.4% of this theme group

Research highlights boundary‑layer and pressure effects that complicate reusable launch vehicle trajectories.

Launch vehicle (44) · Aerospace engineering (32) · Trajectory (8) · Aeronautics (13)

Influence of Boundary Layer Transition on the Trajectory Optimisation of a Reusable Launch Vehicle

Unsteady Surface Pressure Characterization on Launch Vehicle in Liftoff Configuration

Heat Transfer Challenges

12.6% of this theme group

Papers discuss measured throat heating and radiative loads in rocket thrust chambers.

Heat transfer (11) · Coolant (8) · Combustion chamber (14) · Heat flux (8)

Overview and analysis of the experimentally measured throat heat transfer in liquid rocket engine thrust chambers

Radiative Heating in Combustion Chamber of Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines

Detonation Engine Uncertainties

10.6% of this theme group

Studies examine performance modeling and parametric sensitivities of rotating detonation rockets.

Detonation (20) · Nozzle (15) · Rocket (17) · Rocket engine (16)

Rotating Detonation Engine Performance Model for Rocket Applications

Low-Order Parametric Analysis of a Rotating Detonation Engine in Rocket Mode

Thrust Vector Control Risks

8.9% of this theme group

Research evaluates thrust‑vector methods and instability damping for rocket engines.

Thrust (21) · Nozzle (12) · Specific impulse (8) · Rocket (16)

Demonstration of Thrust Vector Control by Hydrogen Peroxide Injection in Hybrid Rockets

Validation of Transverse Instability Damping Computations for Rocket Engines

Combined‑Cycle Propulsion Issues

6.4% of this theme group

Works assess performance and suction predictions for rocket‑ramjet and ejector configurations.

Ramjet (6) · Scramjet (5) · Propulsion (8) · Combustor (5)

Performance of a Rocket-Ramjet Combined-Cycle Engine Model in Ejector Mode Operation

Analytical Method for Prediction of Suction Performance of Ejector-Jet

Advanced Hybrid Rocket Development

19.9% of this theme group

Opportunities focus on novel hybrid engines and reliability‑driven testing frameworks.

Rocket (531) · Rocket engine (456) · Aerospace engineering (301) · Thrust (167)

Characterization of Advanced Hybrid Rocket Engines

Demonstration of a Reliability-Driven Framework for Rocket Engine Development, Test, and Verification

Launch Vehicle Control Innovations

19.3% of this theme group

Research explores modern flight‑control designs and flexible vehicle modeling techniques.

Launch vehicle (503) · Trajectory (116) · Aerospace engineering (275) · Control theory (88)

Analysis and Design of Launch Vehicle Flight Control Systems

Dynamic Modeling and Flight Control Simulation of a Large Flexible Launch Vehicle

Spacecraft systems Integration and Mission Planning

17.0% of this theme group

Studies address spacecraft integration strategies for diverse launch destinations.

Spacecraft systems (204) · Space launch (190) · Satellite (113) · Spacecraft (134)

Space Launch System Spacecraft and Spacecraft systems Elements: Making Progress Toward First Launch

NASA's Space Launch System: One Vehicle, Many Destinations

Liquid‑Propellant Engine Design

14.1% of this theme group

Papers present new designs and predictive models for liquid rocket propulsion.

Liquid-propellant rocket (383) · Propellant (264) · Rocket engine (289) · Rocket (274)

Design of liquid-propellant rocket engines

Mathematical modeling and numerical simulations for performance prediction in case of a liquid propelled rocket engine

Regenerative Cooling Advances

11.4% of this theme group

Works develop novel heat‑transfer methods for cooling liquid‑propellant combustion chambers.

Combustion chamber (157) · Heat transfer (86) · Rocket engine (243) · Combustion (130)

A novel heat transfer modeling methodology for regenerative cooling in liquid propellant rocket engines

Development of a mathematical model for the cooling channel of a liquid propellant rocket engine’s chamber with respect for variations in co

High‑Performance Propulsion Concepts

10.1% of this theme group

Research investigates turbojet, pulse detonation, and specific‑impulse enhancements.

Propulsion (72) · Propellant (88) · Specific impulse (42) · Very-long-baseline interferometry (11)

Mathematical modeling and numerical simulations for performance prediction in case of the Turbojet engine

Thrust Performance and Heat Load Modelling of Pulse Detonation Engines

Rocket Nozzle Optimization

8.2% of this theme group

Studies apply CFD and multi‑inlet designs to improve rocket nozzle performance.

Nozzle (296) · Rocket engine nozzle (94) · Rocket (146) · Rocket engine (133)

Computational Fluid Dynamics Model of Various Types of Rocket Engine Nozzles

Numerical investigation on performance of convergent–divergent nozzle with multi‐inlet combustion chamber of a rocket engine

Toronto

25.8% across the displayed hubs

7 companies hiring · $265.0M disclosed funding

Ottawa

18.6% across the displayed hubs

4 companies hiring · $6.1M disclosed funding

Montreal

14.4% across the displayed hubs

4 companies hiring · $328.9M disclosed funding

Vancouver

14.0% across the displayed hubs

1 companies hiring · $304.5M disclosed funding

Calgary

10.6% across the displayed hubs

1 companies hiring · $41.0M disclosed funding

Halifax

6.8% across the displayed hubs

2 companies hiring · $26.4M disclosed funding

Victoria

5.9% across the displayed hubs

3 companies hiring · $6.1M disclosed funding

Mississauga

3.8% across the displayed hubs

1 companies hiring · $0 disclosed funding