2 x Tritó

Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Communications

Low Earth Orbit Diamant Launch Area Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana

First two high-capacity 5G D2D (Direct-to-Device) Tritó satellites for Spanish satellite operator Sateliot.

Updates

Miura 5

Family:
Configuration:

MIURA 5 is a 2 stage launch vehicle powered by liquid oxygen and kerosene. The vehicle is designed, integrated and operated by PLD Space, and its 1st stage is designed to be eventually recovered by parachuting into the sea.

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Specifications
  • Minimum Stage
    2
  • Max Stage
    3
  • Length
    35.81 m
  • Diameter
    2.0 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    2.0 m
  • Launch Mass
  • Thrust
    950.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Miura 5
  • Family
  • Variant
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Miura 5
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
    900.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity
    540.0 kg

Payload Aerospace S.L.

Payload Aerospace S.L.

(PLD Space)

CEO: Raúl Torres Founded: 2011 Successes: 1 Failures: 0 Pending: 2

Agency Type:

Payload Aerospace S.L. is a Spanish company developing two partially-reusable launch vehicles called Miura 1 and Miura 5.

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