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PLD Space successfully launched its Miura 1 suborbital rocket in 2023.
PLD Space plans to expand its test facilities from 154,000 to 800,000 square metres.
PLD Space plans to increase the size of its facilities from 169,000 to 834,000 square meters.
PLD Space’s 2025 focus will be on testing and launching the first MIURA 5 unit on its maiden flight.
PLD Space plans to focus throughout 2025 on testing and launching the first MIURA 5 unit on its maiden flight.
PLD Space will aim to launch the MIURA 5 mission at the close of 2025.
PLD Space plans to expand its workforce to 300 employees by the end of the year.
PLD Space will aim to launch the MIURA 5 mission at the end of 2025.
The launch base at CSG Kourou for PLD Space will cover over 15,700 square meters and will host MIURA 5’s first launches.
PLD Space plans to increase its workforce from 165 employees to a total of 300 by the end of 2024.
PLD Space plans to open new headquarters in Elche (Alicante) in the first half of 2024 for manufacture and assembly of preliminary MIURA 5 units.
Ezequiel Sánchez is the executive president of PLD Space, which successfully launched its Miura 1 rocket in October.
PLD Space successfully launched its Miura 1 suborbital rocket on 2023-10-06 and is developing the Miura 5 small orbital launch vehicle.
PLD Space plans to double its workforce to 300 employees by 2024.
PLD Space successfully completed umbilical cable tests for the first flight unit of the MIURA 1 Spanish microlauncher.
PLD Space successfully completed a Wet Dress Rehearsal full propellant loading test for the first flight unit of the MIURA 1 microlauncher.
PLD Space is one of only three private European companies authorized to operate from the Guiana Space Centre.
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 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 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.