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PLD Space

Active PLD Launch Public HQ: Elche, Spain Founded 2011

Spanish small-launch operator. Suborbital Miura 1 flew successfully October 2023; orbital Miura 5 in development from Kourou, French Guiana. ESA Boost! co-funding. Listed on BME Growth in 2024.

46.4
ARI Composite
Moderate Risk
#16 of 30
Peer Rank
Launch cohort
Total Launches
No flights tracked
PLD
Market cap
BME

FINANCIAL HEALTH

46.4
ARI composite · Moderate Risk
Peer rank#16 of 30
Peer groupLaunch
Data coverage53%

SECTOR POSITION

Primary sectorLaunch
Rank within sector#16 of 30
Tracked peers30

RECENT COVERAGE

Date Source Headline
Sep 03, 2026 Payload Space PLD Space, HyImpulse Close Major Extension Rounds
Aug 29, 2026 NASASpaceFlight ESA awards first European Launcher Challenge contracts
Aug 14, 2026 Payload Space Rocket Lab Enters Europe’s Crowded Launch Market
Jul 31, 2026 Payload Space Payload Field Guide: European Launchers
Jul 23, 2026 PV Magazine (Global) Brazil sets compensation rules for wind and solar curtailment

REGISTRY DATA

Legal namePayload Aerospace S.L.
Ticker / ExchangePLD (BME)
OwnershipPublic
HeadquartersElche, Spain
CountryES
Founded2011
FounderRaul Torres, Raul Verdu
CEORaul Torres
AliasesPLD Space, PLD, Payload Aerospace, Payload Aerospace S.L.
Key programsMiura 1, Miura 5
Gov customersEuropean Space Agency, CDTI (Spain)
IPO statusListed on BME Growth (Spain)

Source: space_company_registry.json · Operator homepage → · Wikipedia entry summarising Miura 1 success and Miura 5 development. Operator site at pldspace.com confirms HQ in Elche.

METHODOLOGY

Launch history and subsystem outcomes aggregate from AstraVeris's launch_events table with Wilson 95% lower bounds on success rates. ARI scores come from the 11-factor composite (/finance/methodology/). Constellation counts derive from the live CelesTrak/GCAT object catalog. Gov contracts from USAspending.gov awards; private deals from deduplicated pipeline deal extraction. Absence of a row means "not tracked" — we never fabricate. See /methodology/ for the full data model and /data-licensing/ for licensing terms.

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