Garneau Cosmodrome

The Garneau Cosmodrome (French: Cosmodrome de Garneau) is the largest, newest, and most modernly equipped of the three operational civilian spaceports in the Canadian Republic, operated by the Canada Cosmonautical Services Agency (CANCOSMOS), located in Magdalen County, Quebec, approximately 90 kilometres north of Prince Edward Island in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.

The cosmodrome is the only of Canada's three operation cosmodromes capable of launching non-reusable satellites and spacepropes, as well as the precursor centrepoints for CANCOSMOS' ongoing PLANTs program (the first permanent space colony program of it’s kind of). CANCOSMOS' reusable Delta Gliders are launched most frequently from the Garneau Cosmodrome (averaging two launches per day), but are also capable of launch and reentry/landing at the other two cosmodromes operated by CANCOSMOS and even some military airbases.

The Garneau Cosmodrome employs 5056 personnel, all but 548 of whom are current or training astronauts or spaceflight tariners, the 548 being semi-permanent (some international) researchers working at the cosmodrome; the remaining 2687 inhabitants of Magdalen County are divided more or less evenly between Canadian Aerospace Forces training personnel, Royal Canadian Gendarmerie military police (provost) personnel, and mechanical and grounds maintenance personnel. An additional nearly 400 people live on the two islands of Magdalen County which remained municipalities separate from the cosmodrome: Île Brion and Île d'Entrée.