:Spanish startup PLD Space aborted a test launch of its reusable Miura-1 rocket at the last moment early on Saturday in the latest setback to European attempts to develop mainland launch capacity for small payloads.The launch in Huelva in southwest Spain was scrubbed after the countdown had reached zero, with
:Spanish startup PLD Space aborted a test launch of its reusable Miura-1 rocket at the last moment early on Saturday in the latest setback to European attempts to develop mainland launch capacity for small payloads.
The launch was halted after not all the"umbilical cables in the avionics bay were released," the company said. PLD Space's Miura-1 rocket, named after a breed of fighting bulls, is as tall as a three-storey building and has a 100-kg cargo capacity. It can also be used to carry out zero-gravity experiments.
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