Europe's first private rocket MIURA 1 SN1 launched by PLD Space
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Spanish launch startup PLD Space has successfully launched the first flight of its suborbital Miura 1 rocket. The flight was conducted at 00:19 UTC on 7 October from the El Arenosillo Test Center in Huelva, Spain. The flight lasted a total of 306 seconds, with the vehicle reaching a maximum altitude of 46 kilometers. After reaching its maximum altitude, the rocket began its journey back to Earth, landing in the Atlantic Ocean under parachute. The company intended to recover the spacecraft within hours of landing, but PLD Space has not yet confirmed that the operation was successfully completed. The vehicle carried an experiment for the German Center for Applied Technology and Microgravity, the purpose of which was to "study microgravity conditions".
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