Huelva (EFE).- The Miura 1, the rocket designed and built by the company from Elche, PLD Space, has successfully passed the test of full charge of propellants -propellants- with a clock up to T0, a test “very complex to execute, but essential to ensure that it is ready for its first launch.
This has been confirmed by the company through its Twitter account, in which it details that said test has been carried out at the Médano del Loro base, in Moguer (Huelva), where the rocket has been located since the second week of March awaiting its launch scheduled for this April.
The most critical test for the Miura 1 rocket
From PLD Space it is also specified that it is one of the “most critical” tests of the campaign, since it is carried out “with all the launch steps prior to starting the engine, including the loading of kerosene, liquid oxygen, helium and Nitrogen, all at nominal pressure.
“T0 is reached with the launcher in autosequence, that is, in an autonomous sequence of events synchronized with the launch infrastructure. When it reaches T0, an ‘auto abort’ is executed, commanded by the rocket itself”, they point out.
The final objective of the launch is to carry out a first flight test that allows validating in real conditions the technology developed so far by the company from Elche, for which it has different flight windows conditioned by the security of the area, the weather conditions and the availability of the rocket itself.
When this happens, Miura 1 will become the first 100% Spanish private rocket to go into space.
