The Miura 1 is the first private rocket to be launched in Europe and is developed entirely in Spain at the hands of the company from Elche.
The Spanish company PLD Spacewhich launched the rocket Miura 1 from the Cedea facilities in El Arenosillo in Moguer (Huelva), has concluded that the rocket launch was “a complete success“, despite could not be recoveredsince “it was not a priority objective.”
“We have learned to launch rockets,” said the co-founder, CEO and launch director of PLD Space, Raul Torresthis Friday at a press conference to report the results of the first experimental flight of the Miura 1 rocket.
The Miura 1 is the first private rocket to be launched in Europe and is developed entirely in Spain at the hands of the Elche company. The purpose of this rocket was to collect as much information as possible regarding design, process and technology aspects, which will later be used in the construction of the rocket. Miura 5currently in development.
After completing the mission, a PLD Space team was going to carry out the rocket pickup in the Atlantic Ocean. However, the company was unable to recover the Miura 1 in the ocean.
“When we talk about success we say it with a very clear conscience. It was not a priority objective to recover the rocket,” said the executive president of PLD Space, Ezequiel Sánchez, highlighting that, throughout history, there have been some 6,500 launches. of rockets and “around 100 have been recovered and the companies that have recovered it have done so between the fifth and tenth launch.
For the company’s executive president, the launch of Miura 1, which has had a total cost of 30 million euros and whose data will allow adjusting the aerodynamic model that will be used in the Miura 5 rocket and that will be ready for launch “in two years”, is a “historical milestone, a project with a critical impact on a need within the context of European competitiveness “and that positions Spain as the tenth country with launch capacity.