Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), University of Toronto’s seed-stage accelerator for futuristic science companies, is to launch a space tech stream targeting the creation of 60 space startups over five years.

The nine-month program, affiliated with Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, aims to foster space technologies including interplanetary transportation, asteroid mining, habitat construction, radiation-resistant materials and launching or propulsion technologies.

Participants could include PhD or master’s level students from academic institutions around the world, including the University of Toronto Institute for…