{"city":"Elche","name":"PLD Space","slug":"pld-space","facts":[{"date":"2026-11-01","type":"funding_round","value":"More than €900 million subscribed at the ESA ministerial conference for launch services and upgraded vehicles","source":"SpaceNews"},{"date":"2026-09-12","type":"product_launch","value":"Unveiled the reusable Miura 9 launcher","source":"NASASpaceflight"},{"date":"2026-09-10","type":"total_funding","value":"Raised to scale launch capabilities and complete Miura 5 development","source":"Tech.eu"},{"date":"2026-09-10","type":"total_funding","value":"Raised in H1 2026 to scale industrial and launch capabilities","source":"Tech.eu"},{"date":"2026-09-09","type":"funding_round","value":"European Investment Bank funding for Miura 5 development","source":"Electronics Weekly"},{"date":"2026-09-09","type":"contract","value":"Selected by ESA for the European Launcher Challenge","source":"Electronics Weekly"}],"peers":[],"stage":"Growth","state":"Valencian Community","aliases":[],"country":"Spain","domains":[{"why":"PLD Space develops the Miura 5 small-satellite launcher and future Miura Next vehicles, with launch sites in French Guiana and Oman, to provide orbital launch services.","list":"Space 100","rank":80,"tier":"member","layer":"Launch","total":67,"domain":"Space","scores":{"leverage":6,"position":6,"progress":10,"firepower":8,"commercial":6,"deployment":7,"production":4,"technology":6},"edition":"November 2026","segment":"Launch services"}],"founded":null,"signals":[{"date":"2026-10-27","header":"PLD Space delayed the first orbital launch of its MIURA 5 rocket beyond 2026.","outlet":"Space24"},{"date":"2026-10-21","header":"PLD Space is manufacturing three Miura-5 rockets for qualification and flight operations.","outlet":"Raumfahrer.net"},{"date":"2026-10-21","header":"PLD Space is manufacturing three Miura-5 launch vehicles ahead of a planned 2027 debut launch.","outlet":"Raumfahrer.net"},{"date":"2026-10-19","header":"PLD Space began system-level testing of the Miura 5 rocket.","outlet":"NASASpaceflight"},{"date":"2026-10-19","header":"PLD Space began system-level testing of the MIURA 5 orbital launcher.","outlet":"Satellite Evolution"},{"date":"2026-10-19","header":"PLD Space manufactured the first three MIURA 5 vehicles and expanded its industrial infrastructure.","outlet":"Satellite Evolution"}],"website":"https://pldspace.com","category":"Space · Launch","categories":[{"name":"Launch services","domain":"Space","parent":"Space · Launch"}],"last_round":null,"updated_at":"2026-10-29T10:01:28.522+00:00","facts_total":71,"positioning":"PLD Space is a Spanish launch company (Elche, founded 2011) whose Miura 1 was the first private European rocket launched (2023) and whose Miura 5 (1,040kg to LEO, ocean-recovery reuse) targets an inaugural flight before end-2026 from its own EUR 35M complex at Kourou. It raised >EUR 350M total, including a EUR 180M Series C led by Mitsubishi Electric (also a strategic customer), Spanish state funds, a EUR 158.9M ESA Launch Challenge award (August 2026), and EIB debt, giving it the strongest capital and customer stack of the pre-orbital European cohort. It is pre-orbital-revenue.","sub_category":"Launch services","signals_total":112,"url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/pld-space","title":"PLD Space · space, Elche, Valencian Community, Spain · scores, facts and signals · Frontier Tech Intelligence","description":"PLD Space develops the Miura 5 small-satellite launcher and future Miura Next vehicles, with launch sites in French Guiana and Oman, to provide orbital launch services. Space 100 rank 80 (score 67) 112 signals and 71 facts with sources.","publisher":"Frontier Tech Intelligence (Future Frontiers, a trade name of Essential Cognition Inc.)","note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}