NASA’s Pandora hitches ride on successful satellite launch by Toronto-based company

Toronto-based aerospace company Kepler Communications Inc. launched 10 satellites on Sunday, cementing its position as the operator of the largest fleet of Canadian-built spacecraft to date.

The cluster of 300-kilogram satellites – each one about the size of a large desk – were among 47 payloads carried into orbit on a Space X rocket that lifted off at 5:44 Pacific time from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, about 250 kilometres northwest of Los Angeles.