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MADRID -Spanish company PLD Space launched its recoverable Miura-1 rocket early on Saturday from a site in southwest Spain, carrying out Europe's first fully private rocket launch in a glimmer of hope for the region's stalled space ambitions.
He said all rocket systems worked"perfectly", adding that the company would now focus on tripling its workforce."This is just the beginning." The partly reusable launcher landed in the Atlantic Ocean and the company will recover it later on Saturday, it said in a statement. That system involved releasing the launcher from a converted Boeing 747. Competitors lining up to join the race to launch small payloads include companies in Scotland, Sweden and Germany.
In July, the last launch of Europe's largest rocket, the premier Ariane 5 space launcher, took place at the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
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