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PLD Space is one of three European companies authorized by the French Space Agency (CNES), through a binding agreement, to operate MIURA 5 from the CSG Space Centre in French Guiana.
PLD Space is attempting to launch MIURA 1 as Europe’s first reusable rocket with recovery and reusability requirements that only three companies have achieved in space history.
PLD Space designs, develops, produces, and operates MIURA 1, a private launcher in Europe.
PLD Space postponed the MIURA 1 launch on 2023-05-31 due to strong high-altitude winds registered in Huelva.
PLD Space postponed a launch on 2023-05-31 due to high winds in Huelva.
PLD Space postponed the launch of MIURA 1 until next September after reaching an agreement with the National Institute of Aerospace Technology (INTA) of the Ministry of Defence.
PLD Space reached an agreement with Arianespace on 2023-06-14 to study possible future cooperation on space transportation.
PLD Space postponed a 2023-05-31 Miura 1 launch attempt because of persistent high upper-level winds.
PLD Space planned to conduct the Miura 1 suborbital launch in late May from a coastal facility operated by the Spanish National Institute for Aerospace Technology (INTA).
PLD Space signed a binding contract with the French space agency CNES on 2023-06-21 to use the former Diamant launch site in Kourou, French Guiana, for Miura 5.
PLD Space aborted the 2023-06-17 launch because not all of the umbilical cables attached to Miura 1’s avionics bay separated as required.
PLD Space’s MIURA 1 SN1 test flight mission at INTA’s El Arenosillo facility in Huelva was carried out on time on 17 June 2023 but did not launch because not all umbilical cables in the avionics bay were released.
PLD Space designs and builds reusable orbital micro-launchers under the MIURA family, including the suborbital MIURA 1 and the orbital MIURA 5.
PLD Space has obtained more than 65 million in financing to date.
PLD Space’s three production centers total more than 20,000 m2 of industrial facilities.
PLD Space is planning a suborbital launch of a prototype rocket as soon as 2023-05-31.
MIURA 5 is the launcher that PLD Space expects to use to start its commercial activity in 2025.
PLD Space completed a hot test of the MIURA 1 engine at full power for 5 seconds at its launch base in El Arenosillo (Huelva).
Development of MIURA 5 has recently started in facilities that PLD Space is expanding within the Teruel airport site.
PLD Space characterizes reaching the MIURA 1 launch pad as the first private micro launcher company milestone in the European space race after 12 years.