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PLD Space completed a series of thrust vector control tests on the kerosene-fueled Teprel-B rocket engine on 2020-08-28.
PLD Space signed a 25-year lease agreement for the Teruel test facility in 2018 that included a commitment to spend 1,000,000 EUR to add a test control center, stage hangar and three test benches.
PLD Space will set a launch date for the orbital Miura 5 rocket after successfully launching a Miura 1 rocket.
PLD Space is courting customers for both the suborbital Miura 1 and the orbital Miura 5 and plans to transition suborbital customers to Miura 5 when they are ready for orbital missions.
PLD Space plans to launch Miura 1 rockets from El Arenosillo, INTA’s suborbital spaceport on the southwestern coast of Spain near Portugal.
PLD Space planned to launch Miura 1 in 2019 but delayed the rocket’s debut after a series of test-firing anomalies during engine development.
PLD Space intends to launch Miura 5 rockets from Europe’s Guiana Space Center in South America and has forged an agreement with the French space agency CNES to pursue that goal.
PLD Space plans to recover Miura 5’s first stage using a combination of retro-propulsive maneuvers and parachutes.
PLD Space renamed the rocket Miura 5, dropping the Arion 2 name.
PLD Space plans to conduct a maiden launch of the Miura 5 in the third quarter of 2021.
A 10-month European Space Agency review concluded that launching up to 300 kg to a 500-kilometer orbit on a single PLD Space rocket would be better than 150 kg.
The European Space Agency invested 300,000 EUR in PLD Space’s efforts.
PLD Space plans to implement its recovery technologies onboard the Miura 1 demonstrator next year.
PLD Space has operated at Teruel Airport since 2014.
Teruel Airport is providing more than 13,000 square meters of land for PLD Space.
PLD Space plans to quadruple the size of its engine test facility at Teruel Airport following a new 25-year lease that began 2018-08.
The 25-year lease enables PLD Space to upgrade systems to conduct hot fire tests lasting up to four minutes to qualify full mission duration tests for the Arion 1 reusable suborbital launcher, whose first mission is planned for next year.
PLD Space plans to start building a test bench for the Arion 2 rocket at Teruel Airport.
PLD Space intends to invest more than 1,000,000 EUR in new infrastructure at Teruel Airport.
PLD Space has raised 18,000,000 EUR to date.