PLD Space the competition of Europe's SpaceX.

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PLD space is the Spanish SpaceX, or the European SpaceX because at the moment I do not believe that there is any European company with projects underway, not only paper projects but real ongoing projects that PLD space has, on October 7 the Spanish company called the media and experts to the Beyond event, although “Plus Ultra” would have been better.

I remember that historically the motto Plus Ultra in Spain was used because formerly in the time of the Greeks and Romans it was believed that the columns of Hercules were Plus Ultra, there was no beyond and when the Spanish broke that Plus Ultra we showed that there was. beyond.

It turns out that we all believed that in that presentation what they would show us would be the new rocket factory that occupies an area of about 12,500 square meters, a lady factory and is located in Elche, in addition that they were going to tell us about the progress of their miura 5 rocket , which is a real rocket that is being built and will be ready shortly, it will be the first space rocket built in and by Spaniards.

The Miura 5 is a rocket that can put up to half a ton of cargo into orbit in low Earth orbit, which is the Earth orbit that is currently the most commercially interesting, because that is where space satellite constellations are being created, it is where There are space stations that periodically need supplies to function and also to carry out experiments, so it is the most interesting commercial orbit, if you have a transport that allows you to send goods there, you have an almost assured business.

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It was thought that it was going to be just that, but in the end it was much more, it was something spectacular, the plans for the future of this company were presented and things are looking very very good, the muira next program was presented composed of the models of miura next, miura next heavy and next super heavy launchers with the capacity to place a maximum of 53 tons in orbit, the idea is that they end up being reusable and vertical landing rockets, and if the path set by SpaceX is obviously followed, why not The path set by SpaceX is going to be followed, if they are doing it well, we follow your path, the Chinese space companies are also following that path and other space companies are also doing the same, this entire program is very well designed.

The most notable of the rockets they are preparing is the mura next super heavy, which will be one of the most powerful rockets in the world, capable of launching more than 16 tons to the moon and 13 tons to Mars in its non-recoverable version, in the recoverable version would be a little less, because you have to add fuel to recover the rockets and then it would be about 3.6 tons to the moon and 2.4 tons to Mars, which is very good, sending 2.4 tons of goods to Mars is very very well, it would be similar, to give an example, to SpaceX's heavy falcon that in 2018 launched a Tesla car into the orbit of Mars.

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Although the most exciting moment was when they presented the Lince capsule, Simply with this they have already made history, but if they manage to bring it to reality they will be making legends, here many journalists got their cables mixed up and then published headlines and things like that the Spanish company was going to send humans to the moon in 2030 and to Mars too. on the spaceship.

All this seems very ambitious and it is, but it is well thought out and does not respond to fantastic dreams, but rather it is about giving a practical response to realistic needs, to begin with we are talking not about four types, not four cats, it is a serious company with 254 workers and a team of very good engineers and experts in the field, because historically in Spain they have unfortunately produced few engineers and few inventors, but the few they have had were very good, many failed because there was no interest in promoting his inventions.

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I hope that this time they do not miss this opportunity and this initiative serves to create a world-leading industry that can achieve; Secondly, for these things to work, money is needed. PLD space already has around 596 million and options to obtain very important contracts; Third, the capsule is not to take Humans to the moon, or to Mars, unless they make a much larger version.

The Lince, which can carry up to five astronauts, is a space taxi that is known as the ships that carry humans or cargo cargo to low Earth orbit. It would be something similar to the spacex Dragon ship or the service that fulfills the Russian Soyuz or the ill-fated Boeing Starliner, and it is just what Europe needs, this type of ship has needed this type of ship for 20 years or more, because the European space agency, despite being the third space agency by budget in the world, not long ago it was the second until it was surpassed by China, the European space agency has always had to pay Russia or the United States to be able to send its astronauts and equipment to the international space station.

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