April 2024
Commercial launch development in Spain
... progress rapidly towards the inaugural flight of MIURA 5, which is our ultimate goal. At present, over 90 percent of the PLD Space team is dedicated to developing MIURA 5. Its maiden launch is scheduled for 2025 from the European spaceport in Kourou...
29 May 2024
Spanish and German firms join forces to expand commercial access to space
...launch capacity and integrate its customers' satellites with PLD Space's MIURA 5. This orbital launch vehicle is optimised ... the end of 2025. "We are thrilled to partner with PLD Space and leverage their cutting-edge MIURA 5 launch vehicle to further...
April 2020
European spaceports compete for recognition and business
...Europe, with government funding to greater or lesser extents. Most notably these include Skyrora and Orbex in the UK, PLD Space in Spain, Nammo in Norway, and the international consortia working on the SMILE and Sparrow launcher concepts. In addition...
28 February 2024
SSSIF consolidates position as Europe's leading NewSpace event
...lunar missions. Among them was Ezequiel Sanchez, CEO of PLD Space, a Spanish company that has become a major player ...'s Advanced Exploration Systems Division, outlining the challenges that the space agency is facing in reaching Mars. He admitted that ...
November 2017
Japanese space industrial policy in transition
.... Interstellar Technologies, based in Hokkaido, Japan, is building a small launcher comparable to those of Rocket Lab or PLD Space. Astroscale, a company based in Singapore but run by a Japanese entrepreneur, is planning to develop debris-monitoring...
