PLD Space to start building French Guiana launch facilities next month
Top Stories Tamfitronics PLD Space vice president of sales and customers Pablo Gallego (left) with sales manager César Bernal at Small Satellite Conference 2024 in Logan, Utah. Credit: PLD SpaceTAMPA, Fla. — As Arianespace ramps up following Ariane 6’s July maiden flight from Europe’s spaceport in French Guiana, a Spanish venture is preparing to become the first non-institutional launcher to reach orbit from the base next year.PLD Space plans to start building launch facilities for its Miura 5 rocket in October from the Diamant site at Guiana Space Centre, cofounder and chief business development officer Raúl Verdú told SpaceNews.Diamant has been dormant for decades after once being used for the French rocket of the same name, and “in the area where we are there is nothing,” Verdú said, “we have to do everything from scratch.”PLD...
