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

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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

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