A Spanish company is set to launch its first rocket today

A Spanish company, PLD Space plans to launch one of its rockets for the first time ever today (Oct. 6), and you can watch the action live. PLD Space's Miura 1 suborbital rocket is scheduled to lift off today from the El Arenosillo Test Center at the National Institute of Aerospace Technology in Huelva, Spain, during an eight-hour window that opens at 8 p.m. ET.

The Miura 1 is a single-stage rocket that stands 41 feet (12.5 meters) tall. It can carry about 220 pounds (100 kilograms) of payload on brief flights to suborbital space. Miura 1 is carrying a payload on its debut mission — an experiment from the German Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity that will study microgravity conditions during the flight, according to PLD Space.

Tonight's mission will last 12 minutes and will reach 50 miles (80 kilometres) above Earth's surface. The mission will end with the Miura 1's splashdown into the Atlantic Ocean, after which it will be recovered for inspection and analysis, according to PLD Space.

The Miura 1 is the first European rocket that's designed to be recoverable. PLD Space aims to learn a great deal about the vehicle during and after today's mission, to inform future flights of the Miura 1 and to aid the development of the Miura 5, the company's planned orbital launcher.

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