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The National Institute for Aerospace Technology (INTA) granted PLD Space permission to operate in a flight test window that extends until 2023-05-31.
PLD Space plans to conduct a suborbital launch in a window approved by the National Institute for Aerospace Technology (INTA) that runs through 2023-05-31 to test technologies for its small orbital launch vehicle.
PLD Space has raised 60,000,000 EUR to date.
PLD Space is working on a Series C funding round of 150,000,000 EUR to support development of Miura 5 and the beginning of commercial operations.
On 2023-05-18, PLD Space conducted a static-fire test of its Miura 1 rocket at the El Arenosillo launch site operated by the National Institute for Aerospace Technology (INTA).
PLD Space will announce the Miura 1 launch date up to 48 hours in advance after completing an INTA flight review.
PLD Space's website lists Miura 1 as capable of reaching up to 150 km on a 12-minute flight.
Miura 5 is a small launch vehicle PLD Space is developing that is capable of placing up to 500 kg into orbit starting as soon as 2025.
Some other European small-launch companies are planning their first orbital launches as soon as late 2023, ahead of PLD Space.
PLD Space is preparing to sign the first binding contracts for launching satellites with its Miura 5 small launch vehicle and is working to close a new large investment round.
PLD Space acknowledged it will not necessarily be the first European company to develop a small launch vehicle, with several other European companies preparing for first launches later 2023.
PLD Space designed the Miura 5 to place about 450 kg into low Earth orbit.
PLD Space is using the same vehicle technology and control center for Miura 1 as it plans to use for Miura 5.
PLD Space expects to use existing infrastructure at Kourou for initial Miura 5 launches and to develop additional facilities over time as launch rate increases.
PLD Space scheduled the Miura 5 first launch in 2024 from Kourou, French Guiana, where the company will share a new multiuser launch facility.
PLD Space intends to use Miura 1 operations to train staff in manufacturing and operations and to reduce risk for the first launch of Miura 5.
PLD Space designed the primary purpose of Miura 1 to demonstrate technology for the Miura 5 orbital launch vehicle under development.
PLD Space conducted a 122-second full mission static-fire test of the Miura 1 rocket on 2022-09-15 at a company facility in Teruel, Spain.
PLD Space began discussions with the French space agency CNES about the Kourou multiuser launch site in 2019.
PLD Space will launch the MIURA 1 suborbital rocket at the end of 2022 from El Arenosillo in Huelva.