2023-10-06 12:25:03
He Miura 1the rocket designed and built by the company PLD Spacewill be launched into space at dawn this Saturday from its base at the INTA facilities, at the El Arenosillo Experimentation Center, on the coast of Huelva.
The launch is scheduled for 02:00 this Saturday, October 7
As reported by this company from Elche (Alicante), the launch window will begin at 02:00 this Saturday and will close at 10:00 a.m., although it is planned to be launched right at the beginning of that period.
The company has enabled a page web with all the details of the mission, which will be updated with audiovisual material and documentation in real time. The takeoff can be followed on YouTube.
This will be the third attempt to launch Miura 1, since on May 31 the company postponed the flight of its launcher due to the winds at altitude and on June 17, it tried again, producing an automatic abort 0.2 seconds after the launch. takeoff.
During the last few weeks, PLD Space has successfully completed the two previous testsumbilical cable tests and a complete load test that includes the procedures prior to starting the engine.
INTA facilities on the coast of Huelva
The good results obtained during these tests give the green light to the flight mission of the suborbital microlauncher, the company has reported, recalling that this launch will take place at the facilities of the El Arenosillo Experimentation Center (Cedea) of the National Institute of Technology. Aerospace (INTA), in Huelva.
Likewise, they have explained that this new attempt can be seen in person only and exclusively from the Parador de Mazagón beachwhich can only be accessed from the parking lot in that area.
This first flight test allows the technology developed by PLD Space to be validated in real conditions.
The final objective of the launch is to carry out a first flight test that allows the technology developed so far by the Elche company to be validated in real conditions, for which it has different flight windows conditioned by the safety 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 to space.
12 minutes of mission
The flight has a scheduled duration of 12 minutes. The first 6 minutes correspond to the ascent phase, when in microgravity and apogee conditions 80 km will be reached. Tall.
The mission will conclude with the recovery of the rocket in the Atlantic Ocean once splashdown is complete. To do this, there are two boats and divers specialized in underwater operations on the high seas and aerial surveillance equipment.
The mission will conclude with the recovery of the rocket in the Atlantic
Miura 1 also has on board a experiment of the German Center for Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM)which aims to study microgravity conditions.
In this way, this first suborbital flight will allow ZARM to collect the necessary information to carry out scientific experiments on future suborbital flights.
MISSION OBJECTIVES
The first flight of the technological demonstrator officially called MIURA 1 SN1 of PLD Space has as primary objectives collect the largest volume of flight information possible in order to obtain data that will determine the validation and design of the technology, as well as potential improvements or changes in development that will subsequently be transferred and integrated into the Miura 5 orbital launcher. In this sense, every second that Miura 1 is in the air will be a second of success.
This first mission will allow PLD Space to verify the operation of key technologies during flight time, something that has never been possible to date. Specifically, it will be analyzed:
– The thrust profile of the engine in flight conditions.
– The aerodynamic behavior of the launcher.
– Monitoring of the nominal trajectory.
– The nominal behavior of all subsystems under real conditions.
– Exposure to real spatial conditions.
Los secondary objectives The mission will focus on the acquisition of in-flight information from various subsystems, especially in relation to the behavior of Miura 1 during reentry, as well as the possibility of reaching splashdown conditions compatible with a recovery of the rocket in the Atlantic Ocean.
Fuente: EFE/PLD Space
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