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PLD Space has developed rocket technology that is recoverable and reusable, a capability previously achieved by only three companies in Europe.
PLD Space launched its first suborbital rocket, Miura 1, on 2023-10-06 (8:19 p.m. Eastern, 2:19 a.m. local time 2023-10-07).
PLD Space expects Miura 1 will help validate 70% of the design and technology planned for Miura 5.
PLD Space had a planned apogee of 80 km and a planned flight time of 12 minutes for Miura 1 in its prelaunch press kit.
PLD Space successfully completed a Wet Dress Rehearsal full propellant loading test for the first flight unit of the MIURA 1 microlauncher.
PLD Space successfully completed umbilical cable tests for the first flight unit of the MIURA 1 Spanish microlauncher.
PLD Space postponed the MIURA 1 flight on 2023-05-03 due to winds at altitude.
PLD Space will announce the specific MIURA 1 launch date approximately 24 hours in advance of the attempt.
PLD Space signed an agreement with WISeSat.Space, a subsidiary of WISeKey International Holding Ltd., to launch a next generation of ultra-secure, sub-500 kg satellites for Quantum-Ready Internet of Things communications on the MIURA 5 orbital launcher.
PLD Space plans to reach 300 employees by 2024.
PLD Space is developing the MIURA 5 orbital rocket, which is scheduled to launch in 2025 from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana.
PLD Space is expanding its industrial facilities in Elche from the current 2,600 square meters to more than 12,000 square meters.
PLD Space has obtained more than €65 million in funding to date.
PLD Space operates three centers located in Elche, Teruel, and Huelva with more than 100,000 m² of industrial facilities.
PLD Space is one of only three private European companies authorized to operate from the Guiana Space Centre.
CNES granted PLD Space permission to operate MIURA 5 at the Guiana Space Centre (Kourou) in 2025.
MIURA 1 is a suborbital technology demonstrator fully designed by PLD Space with recovery and reusability requirements that only three companies have achieved in space history.
PLD Space is currently conducting the launch campaign for MIURA 1, which is described as the first private rocket developed in Europe and ready to be launched soon on the continent.
PLD Space is currently executing the launch campaign for MIURA 1, which was fully designed by PLD Space as a technology demonstrator with recovery and reusability requirements.
PLD Space, together with Aciturri, AIRBUS, Air Liquide, ALTER, Anteral, Applus, Caye, CECOM, CMASA, Deimos, INSYTE, LOGO 2, Mecanizados Especiales, OCCAM, Repsol, Swagelok, Talleres Ramón Clemente and Tecno Lanema, won the PERTE contract from the Spanish Government to develop a micro launcher.