Space Business Podcast #123 - José Manuel Rodríguez, PLD Space: Launch

PLD Space is a Spanish launch startup. Last October, they successfully completed a suborbital test flight of their Miura-1 rocket. We talk about that flight, their future plans on the way to orbital launch, the launch market at large, and many other things, with my guest, PLD’s CFO, José Manuel Rodríguez. Enjoy!

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Timestamps:

0:00 Intro
2:20 Elevator Pitch
6:05 European access to space
9:17 Business Model
13:17 Specs
18:10 Rocket engines
19:20 Production capacity
20:54 Scaling up
23:41 Europe vs. other markets
25:50 Customers
28:50 Gaining trust with customers
33:27 User guide
35:40 Launch market
39:10 Sovereign launch
42:08 Spaceports
44:18 Orbits
47:00 Future milestones
49:45 Team
53:38 Other interesting space activities
55:30 Sci-Fi