One launch firm, €114m of public money plus €159m in contracts for future launches, one suborbital hop, and a first-flight date that has moved every year since 2016.
0
orbital launches from this country in 2026, to 2 October
0
orbits reached by its launch firms, ever
€114m
public money to its launch firms, not counting contracts for future launches
1
launch firm we cover
Checked 7 October 2026
Launch firms
PLD Space
- Status
- no orbital flight
- Public money
- €114m, plus €159m in a Launcher Challenge contract for future launches
- Private money
- €349m
- Promised
- a first flight to orbit in 2020, said in 2016 to 2017
- Delivered
- MIURA 1 flew suborbital on 7 October 2023; MIURA 5 is now promised for the first half of 2027
Launch sites
No orbital launch site in Spain. El Arenosillo in Huelva handles sounding rockets; PLD Space’s orbital pad is in French Guiana.
El Arenosillo
- What happened
- Spain’s sounding-rocket range. PLD Space’s MIURA 1 flew from here on 7 October 2023 and reached 46 km.
Our file holds 14 dated promises of a first MIURA 5 launch. Every date that has come round has passed without one.
Money from company accounts, public registers and ESA contracts; promises from the statements on our company and spaceport pages; launch counts from Jonathan McDowell’s launch log of 7 October 2026. Every figure is on the page it comes from.