Miura 1

Active Re-Usable

Payload Aerospace S.L. (PLD Space)

Oct. 7, 2023

Description

MIURA 1 is a single stage launch vehicle powered by liquid oxygen and kerosene. The vehicle is designed, integrated and operated by PLD Space.

Specifications
  • Stages
    1
  • Length
    12.7 m
  • Diameter
    0.7 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    0.7 m
  • Launch Mass
    3.0 T
  • Thrust
    30.0 kN
  • Apogee (Sub-Orbital)
    150.0 km
Family
  • Name
    Miura 1
  • Family
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  • Variant
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  • Alias
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  • Full Name
    Miura 1
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
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  • Low Earth Orbit
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  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
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  • Direct Geostationary
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  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity
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Payload Aerospace S.L.

Commercial
CEO: Raúl Torres
PLD Space 2011

Payload Aerospace S.L. is a Spanish company developing two partially-reusable launch vehicles called Miura 1 and Miura 5.

Miura 1 | SN1 Test Flight

Payload Aerospace S.L. | Spain
El Arenosillo Test Centre
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The first flight of PLD Space's MIURA 1 SN1 technology demonstrator allows the collection of as much data as possible for the validation and design of the technology to be transferred and integrated into MIURA 5. In addition, this first suborbital flight allows ZARM Research Institution to study microgravity conditions, gathering information necessary for scientific experiments in future suborbital flights. Finally, a PLD Space team shall pick up the rocket in the Atlantic Ocean once splashdown is completed.

Suborbital
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Long March 12
Success
2 hours, 27 minutes ago
SatNet LEO Group 29
Commercial LC-2 - Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China

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Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M
Success
1 day, 9 hours ago
Glonass-K1? (Kosmos 2621?)
43/3 (43L) - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

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Falcon 9
Success
1 day, 22 hours ago
USSF-432
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

A classified mission for the United States Space Force. It is possibly a batch of classified LEO satellites based on SpaceX’s Starshield satellite bu…


Ceres-2
Success
1 day, 23 hours ago
4 satellites
Launch Area 95A - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Share-ride of 4 commercial Earth observation and technology demonstration satellites to SSO, details TBD.


Long March 2C
Success
3 days, 6 hours ago
Yaogan 51-07 to 09
Launch Complex 3 (LC-3/LA-1) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

3 Chinese military “remote sensing” satellite of unknown purposes.