LAUNCH · OPERATOR PROFILE · DATA AS OF 2026-05-14

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

#10 of 22

Peer Rank

Launch cohort

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Total Launches

No flights tracked

PLD

Market cap

BME

FINANCIAL HEALTH

46.4

ARI composite · Moderate Risk

Peer rank#10 of 22

Peer groupLaunch

Data coverage53%

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SECTOR POSITION

Primary sectorLaunch

Rank within sector#10 of 22

Tracked peers22

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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