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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 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.
Prior to losing the Teprel-B engine, PLD Space planned to conduct Miura 1’s maiden launch in 2019.
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 launch Miura 1 rockets from El Arenosillo, INTA’s suborbital spaceport on the southwestern coast of Spain near Portugal.
PLD Space plans to conduct a maiden launch of the Miura 5 in the third quarter of 2021.
PLD Space intends to invest more than 1,000,000 EUR in new infrastructure at Teruel Airport.
PLD Space plans to expand its propulsion facilities at Teruel Airport to accommodate more engine tests and a test bench for full rocket stages.