New postponement of the launch of the Spanish Miura rocket due to the strong wind in Huelva
The launch of the Miura 1, the rocket designed and built by the Elche company PLD Space, has been postponed for the second time, due, as on May 31, to the detected high-altitude winds, which do not guarantee the success of the launch. mission.
PLD Space has announced on its social networks the postponement of the launch, scheduled from Moguer (Huelva): “The high-altitude winds forecast for this weekend in the launch area, and with the last radiosonde carried out, violate the expected limits and do not allow proceed with Miura 1 launch operations”.
Thus, it is postponed “until a new scheduled window”, he has indicated, without specifying when the launch was scheduled for, although citing the weather forecasts for this weekend.
On May 31, the mission was aborted after having carried out the complete sequence of the launch chronology, which had turned out to be entirely correct.
We will have to wait to see the Miura 1 fly, named after the wild cattle and as a symbol of the Spanish brand, and see how it becomes the first one hundred percent Spanish private rocket to go into space and thereby value the work in 2011 began in Elche (Alicante) the engineers Raúl Torres and Raúl Verdú with 3,000 euros, which today translates into three offices and more than a hundred employees.
The Miura 1, the first 100% Spanish space rocket, in graphics
From launching model rockets in the Alicante orchard to manufacturing the first Spanish launcher: PLD Space, ready to test the Miura 1
The main objective of this first flight is to verify the operation of key technologies in flight, something that to date has not been possible: the thrust profile of the engine in flight conditions, the aerodynamic behavior of the launcher, the monitoring of the nominal trajectory , the nominal behavior of all subsystems under real conditions and exposure to real spatial conditions.
The designed flight has an expected duration of six minutes in which microgravity and apogee conditions are reached at an altitude of 80 kilometers and a team from PLD Space will be in charge of collecting the rocket in the Atlantic Ocean, once the flight has been completed. splashdown.