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PLD Space already has a complete Miura 5 rocket ready. to destroy it

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The renders are over. PLD Space has once again demonstrated that it is advancing at a devilish pace by publishing the first photos of the entire Miura 5 rocket. These images are history of the Spanish space industry. With you, the Miura 5. The first complete unit of the Miura 5 is not made to fly, but to suffer. Named QM1 (Qualification Model 1), has been almost completely assembled for integration testing of all subsystems before the final flight model takes off into Earth orbit next year. This is the first orbital launcher from a Spanish company, the same one that successfully launched the Miura 1 suborbital rocket from Huelva in October 2023. It was that milestone that has allowed PLD Space to complete the development of a rocket in record time. No other European company has done it so quickly. Why it is important. At a time when preserving sovereign access to space It has become a geopolitical issueEurope needs to have a strong aerospace industry and cheaper and more versatile rockets than the Ariane 6 and Vega C developed by ESA. The Miura 5 leads the European New Space thanks to its TEPREL-C biokerosene and liquid oxygen engines, more powerful than its competitors and developed internally by PLD Space in its Elche factory. The rocket measures 35.7 meters high, has two stages (the first with five engines, and the second with an engine adapted to the vacuum of space). The next steps. The first stage of the QM1 will perform a full propellant loading test known as “wet dress rehearsal.” They will fill the tanks, pressurize the vehicle as they would before a flight, and replicate all the structural and thermal loads prior to launch, without actually turning on the engines for takeoff. The second stage will be sent to the United States to test the Flight Termination System (FTS). Basically, it will be destroyed to validate that the explosive charges are capable of safely disintegrating the rocket in the event of an in-flight anomaly. PLD Space expects to have the second qualification unit ready in December. The first Miura 5 designed to fly will arrive shortly after. He is scheduled to travel to French Guiana in the first quarter of 2026. Images | PLD Space In Xataka | PLD Space has a detailed plan to become Europe’s rocket factory. And the pieces have started to fit

If you have heard a roar at Teruel airport it is because PLD Space has just tested the new Miura 5 rocket engine

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A thermal chamber pointing to the test table of PLD Space At Teruel Airport, he has witnessed the first tests of the Treprel-C engine, the heart of the Spanish rocket Miura 5. Wake up, Miura, wakes up. PLD Space engineers have moved the first engines of the new Treprel-C family to the test zone for a series of integrated hardware trials. With these tests, the preparations for the flight rating campaign finalize, with which they will valid the design and tolerance of the motor to integrate it into the rest of the rocket. As Pld Space has advanced In his X profilethe new manufacturing technologies of combustion cameras that they have tried have “very good look”. A jump to the big leagues. The launch of Miura 1 served to validate all kinds of processes and technologies Internally developed, but the Miura 5 engine is much more complex. We talk about a two -stage orbital pitcher, designed to Place satellites of up to a ton In equatorial orbit. With a height of 35.7 meters, Miura 5 needs five teprel-C engines to rise. The engine is a direct evolution of the technologies validated by Miura 1 with an important qualitative leap: it is a turbobombic fueled engine in which the reliability apart from performance prevails. Treprel-C. The new Treprel engine (acronym for “Spanish technology for reusable spatial propulsion for pitchers”) generates 190 kn of thrust at sea level: 950 kN in total for the first stage of the Miura 5. The second stage of the rocket carries an optimized version for the vacuum. These engines, with a height comparable to that of a person, presume to have the combustion chamber of liquid propellant developed by a commercial company with private capital in Europe. They feed on RP-1 bioquerosen and liquid oxygen. Manufactured in Elche. The new PLD Space plant in Elche, 12,500 square meters, is designed to produce up to six MIURA 5 and 60 Treprel-C motors per year, which gives an idea of ​​the project ambition. The company’s facilities at Teruel airport have become, since Miura 1, in the epicenter of static tests. At the end of 2024, PLD Space lifted a 20-meter test tower for cryogenic and pressure test tower, and has built a test bench capable of trying three treprel-C simultaneously. The debut of Miura 5 is scheduled for early 2026. Images | PLD Space In Xataka | The “first private rocket in Europe” has been vacant and someone is getting hollow: Miura 5 of Pld Space

Miura 5 of Pld Space

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After the flight of Isar Aospace flight and a sudden change of CEO in RFA, the Spanish company PLD Space cuts distances in The race to put in orbit The first European private rocket. From Miura 1 to Miura 5. Founded by the Ilicitanos Raúl Torres and Raúl Verdú in 2011, PLD Space successfully launched The suborbital rocket Miura 1 from Huelva In 2023. The 12.5 meter pitcher served as a test bench to validate many of the technologies that PLD Space has now been able to apply directly to his older brother, Miura 5. Miura 5 is A two -stage orbital rocket and 35.7 meters high Designed to put up to 540 kg in polar orbit or 1,080 kg in the low terrestrial orbit. Your heart is five trell-c engines of liquid oxygen and oxygen, internally developed with a total thrust of 950 kN. The second stage uses an optimized version for the emptiness of the same engine. First tests in Teruel. The new PLD Space headquarters is a 12,500 square meter factory located in Elche. It can produce up to six and 60 treprel-C per year. However, the engines’s trial center and the Spanish rocket is located at Teruel airport. At the end of 2024, PLD raised a 20 -meter test tower in its Teruel facilities to submit tanks and other structural components to pressure tests at cryogenic temperatures. In addition, he adapted the Miura 1 test banks to validate components of the new engines, and is building a new bank capable of trying three of these engines at the same time. With the height of a person, Treprel-C engines have the largest liquid propellant combustion chamber that has developed a commercial company with private capital in Europe. Worse funded, but growing. Unlike the German Isar Aerospace, which has a financing of 400 million euros, PLD Space has raised 170 million With the support of the aerospace belonging (40.5 million in the second phase), syndicated loans (31.2 million Santander, EBN and ICO), public financing (11 million co -confisses) and ESA contracts, Like the Boost program! to launch before 2027. PLD Space also has the client portfolio almost full. The Spanish company claims to have covered more than 80% of its launch holes up to 2027, which translates into an income forecast of 596 million euros. Just a few days ago, PLD closed an agreement With the D-AORIT space logistics company to launch its Ion Orbital Transfer vehicle and other satellites to equatorial orbits. In addition, they have exceeded 300 employees and grow at a rate of 15 hiring per month, especially in technical and business profiles. Two space ports. The main base of Miura 5 will be the European Space Puerto of Kouroou, in the French Guiana. PLD Space reached an agreement with the French Space Agency CNES for the construction of the complex. On the other hand, in February 2025 he announced his Second launch base In the Etlaq Space Puerto, in Oman. This movement will give PLD Space direct access to the Middle East market from 2027. The company also raises a third base to reach 30 launches a year from 2030. When will Miura 5 and its rivals fly? Although Raúl Torres, the PLD Space CEO, He opted money to Miura 5 would fly in 2025the inaugural flight of the rocket is scheduled for the first quarter of 2026. Miura 5 will not be alone, although the last months have been moved for some of the main rivals. Isar Aerospace made his Spectrum rocket take off from Andøyain Norway, on March 30, but joy lasted little: at 20-25 seconds, the rocket lost control, He turned around and activated his self -destruction systemfalling to the sea near the platform. There is still no new date for the second attempt. Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA), another heavyweight based in Germany, suffered a capital reverse in August 2024: The explosion of your first stagewhich has delayed its first flight to not before the third quarter of 2025. Just a few days ago, Stefan Tweraser, signed in 2021 as CEO, It was replaced by Indulis Kalninsa veteran of the aerospace industry. Maiaspace, A spinoff of the French group Arianegroupit is also in the race, with the advantage of belonging to the company that has maintained the coheretes of Europe next to Avio for decades. The other two great competitors of PLD Space host in the United Kingdom: Orbex, with their little prime rocket (180 kg to orbit Heliosíncrona) plans its first flight by 2025. Skyorora and its Skyorra XL rocket (315 kg capacity) also point to this same year. Image | PLD Space In Xataka | PLD Space does not conform to the first Spanish rocket: it has been secretly developing a spacecraft a year

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