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\t\t\t\t\t\t19\/02\/2024<\/span> ESA signed a first Boost! contract with PLD Space supporting the development of the company\u2019s Miura 5 launch service. Spain\u2019s PLD Space launched the Miura 1 suborbital mission from southern Spain last year, and it is already working on a larger, orbital class launch vehicle, the Miura 5.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n In October 2023\u00a0PLD Space\u00a0inaugurated the suborbital launch vehicle Miura1 from the El Arenosillo Test Centre in Spain. The rocket is designed to send up to 100 kg up to heights of 150 km above Earth, offering short periods of weightlessness for researchers and other customers.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Miura 5 is the next step in PLD Space launch services portfolio targeting customers who want to launch small satellites into orbit. Set to launch up to 540 kg of hardware to a sun-synchronous orbit, Miura 5 is bigger in every way to Miura 1. The future rocket will be 2 m in diameter and have two stages to propel payloads to orbit \u2013 the first stage will eventually be recuperated with parachutes for reuse on later flights.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n The contract signed today by ESA and PLD Space supports the Miura 5 launch service development by co-funding to the value of \u20ac1.3 million\u00a0to develop a modular, customisable, payload accommodation system. Designed to release all types of satellites with as much flexibility as possible, the payload system \u2013 called MOSPA for Modular Solution for Payload Adapter \u2013 will allow PLD Space to offer its customers a wider range of missions and services, including accommodation of CubeSats, nanosatellites and microsatellites. The development of the modular payload adapter will be done in partnership with OCCAM Space.<\/p>\n The goal is to create the hardware to be as light as possible while also being as adaptable as possible to launch more satellites and meet market demands.<\/p>\n \u201cPLD space has proven itself with its first launch last year, and we look forward to seeing the experience applied to the Miura 5 launch services development,\u201d says ESA’s Jorgen Bru, \u201cThe payload adapter development engaged today was chosen to increase market competitiveness and ensure that many different types of satellites and customers can fly.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n PLD Space\u2019s Chief Business Development Office Ra\u00fal Verd\u00fa adds, \u201cThe winning of the Boost! contract, an achievement shared with our partner OCCAM Space, is a further testament to this fact, and another vote of confidence from ESA. We are excited to develop a modular, highly flexible, low-cost solution to meet our customers\u2019 accommodation needs aboard Miura 5.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOCCAM Space team has a large expertise in structures and mechanisms in the space sector. We are very happy that our MOSPA philosophy and design has been selected to complement the Miura 5 upper stage. We are looking forward to work hand in hand with ESA and PLD Space to bring more competitiveness to the European small launchers market,\u201d says OCCAM Space\u2019s CEO Manuel Serrano.<\/p>\n Miura 5 is aiming for a first flight in 2025, launching from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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