Private company

PLD Space

Logo: PLD Space, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

Private Spanish launch services provider

Payload Aerospace S.L. (PLD Space) is a Spanish company developing two partially-reusable launch vehicles called Miura 1 and Miura 5. Miura 1 is designed as a sounding rocket for sub-orbital flights to perform research or technology development in microgravity environment and/or in the upper atmosphere.2 It is headquartered in Elche.1 It employed 54 people in 2019.1 Its products include Miura Next, Lince and TEPREL.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

2011Founded1
  • Industryaerospace industry1
  • HeadquartersElche1
  • Websitepldspace.com/en
  • Legal formsociedad limitada1
PLD Space, Elche, Alicante, España, 2018 03
Photo: Benjamín Núñez González, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons4

Payload Aerospace S.L. (PLD Space) is a Spanish company developing two partially-reusable launch vehicles called Miura 1 and Miura 5. Miura 1 is designed as a sounding rocket for sub-orbital flights to perform research or technology development in microgravity environment and/or in the upper atmosphere.2

Products and brands

  • Lince
  • Miura 1
  • Miura 5
  • Miura Next
  • TEPREL

Listed on Wikidata.1

Employees over time

  • 2019541

Timeline

  1. 2011Founded Founded1

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