The blast off from Huelva came after two previous attempts were scrubbed.
MADRID: Spanish company PLD Space launched its recoverable Miura-1 rocket early today from a site in southwest Spain, carrying out Europe’s first fully private rocket launch in a glimmer of hope for the region’s stalled space ambitions.The Miura-1 rocket, named after a breed of fighting bull, is as tall as a three-storey building and has a 100kg cargo capacity.Mission control video showed engineers cheering and congratulating one another as the rocket rose into the night sky.
The partly reusable launcher landed in the Atlantic Ocean and the company will recover it later today, it said in a statement.A second attempt in June failed when umbilical cables in the avionics bay did not all release in time, halting the lift-off as smoke and flames spewed from the rocket. In July, the last launch of Europe’s largest rocket, the premier Ariane 5 space launcher, took place at the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
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