Spanish start-up PLD Space, which carried out Europe's first fully private rocket launch last year, aims to one day be able to carry any type of cargo and ultimately humans into space, rivalling ...

PLD Space's "Miura 1" rocket, named after a breed of fighting bulls, is as tall as a three-storey building and has a 100-kg (220-lb) cargo capacity. It can also be used to carry out zero-gravity ...

PLD Space said the rocket had a planned apogee of 80 kilometres and a flight time of 12 minutes. However, despite the Miura 1 only reaching half the altitude its mission planners had hoped for ...

PLD Space is a Spanish company developing two partially-reusable launch vehicles called Miura 1 and Miura 5. We develop reusable rockets to provide commercial orbital access to small satellites in ...