{"id":1190257,"date":"2023-10-09T11:49:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T15:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1190257"},"modified":"2023-10-09T11:49:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T15:49:56","slug":"spanish-companys-success-comes-at-a-critical-time-for-europes-launch-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1190257","title":{"rendered":"Spanish company\u2019s success comes at a critical time for Europe\u2019s launch industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/pld1-800x1200-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Miura 1 rocket takes flight from Southern Spain.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/pld1-scaled.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"2560\" data-width=\"1707\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> The Miura 1 rocket takes flight from Southern Spain. (credit: PLD Space)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A Spanish launch company claimed success on Saturday after its suborbital Miura 1 rocket lifted off and achieved an altitude of 46 km before plummeting into the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s launch from Southern Spain is exciting for several reasons, but most notably because PLD Space is the first of Europe&#8217;s new space launch companies to have some credible success. To that end, Saturday&#8217;s modest flight represented the dawn of the European commercial space age.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This launch culminates over 12 years of relentless effort, yet it marks just the start of our journey,&#8221; said PLD Space Launch director and co-founder Ra\u00fal Torres in a statement after the launch. &#8220;This test flight has yielded valuable data, enabling us to validate crucial design elements and technologies that will underpin the development of our Miura 5 orbital launcher.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1974358#p3\">Read 11 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1974358&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1974358\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spanish company\u2019s success comes at a critical time for Europe\u2019s launch industry<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ The Miura 1 rocket takes flight from Southern Spain. (credit: PLD Space) A Spanish launch company claimed success on Saturday after its suborbital Miura 1 rocket lifted off and achieved an altitude of 46 km before plummeting into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1190257\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1190258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1190257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1190257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1190258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1190257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1190257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1190257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}