PLD SPACEMIURA 5 · FIRST STAGE CONTAINER
Every mission starts on the ground.
We are an engineering company with our own workshop. We invent, prototype and build what protects, holds, moves and deploys hardware that cannot fail.
PLD SPACE · MIURA 5
Before it flew, it travelled with us.
The first stage of Spain's first private orbital launcher left the integration plant inside a container designed and built in Illescas. Our work ends where theirs begins.
See the project →00 / WHO WE ARE
What cannot fail travels with us.
Before it reaches the launch pad, every stage, every satellite and every instrument is built, handled and shipped by road. That stretch is ours.
Since 1998 we have been designing, analysing and building containers, tooling and complete systems for space, defence, aerospace and industry in Illescas, Spain. Structure, mechanics, mechatronics and interior protection, under one roof.
SHIELDING THE CORE
Everyone wants to be at your core. We protect it.
In every project there is something our client cannot afford to lose: a launcher stage, a flight instrument, a defence system. We design and build everything around it, layer by layer, until it travels safely.
- 01Custom foamMachined around the part: every pocket made to fit.
- 02Cradle and interfacesHolds the part only where it can be held.
- 03Shock isolationThe shocks of the journey never reach the payload.
- 04Calculated structureWithstands lifting, stacking and transport.
- 05ContainerSealed, with controlled atmosphere and journey logging.
The missing partner
The muscle and agility that large programmes need.
Prime contractors are winning more and more programmes, but every contract comes with more approval layers, more suppliers and more bureaucracy. Producing fast and well has become the hardest part. That is why the industry is changing: execution is moving to small engineering companies that can concentrate the whole production cycle in a lean team, with the infrastructure to deliver it.
- Win more and more programmes
- Every decision goes through more approval layers
- Their production processes are slow and costly to move
- Need suppliers who don't become another problem
- A small team that decides the same day
- The whole production cycle under one roof
- Our own workshop, overhead cranes and design office
- A single point of responsibility, from specification to delivery
The whole cycle, in a single team
- 01Requirements
- 02Concept
- 03Design and analysis
- 04Prototype
- 05Testing
- 06Manufacturing
- 07Installation
Design office · 4,000 m² workshop · two 10 t overhead cranes · Illescas
They win the programme.
We make it happen.
Protect.
Sealed, insulated, controlled-atmosphere containers for flight hardware, engines and systems. From a case with custom foam to the container for a launcher stage.
Hold.
Frames, cradles and turnover fixtures engineered for one-off parts, with the trolleys and platforms to handle them safely. And structures that hold up the sound and image of stadiums, TV sets and control rooms.
Deploy.
We convert shipping containers into command and control posts and mobile classrooms: structure, insulation, HVAC, power and workstations, ready to operate.
Invent.
We turn ideas into things you can touch. We start from the problem, not from a catalogue: we sketch it with you, study its feasibility and turn it into an engineered concept and manufacturing drawings, even when nothing like it exists on the market.
Prototype.
Build.
“Prototypes are easy. Production is hard.”
Elon Musk
We do both. We turn an idea into a working prototype in weeks and, once it works, we build the complete system in our workshop: structure, mechatronics, wiring, electronics and equipment integration, tested and documented.
Some of
our work.
Space · PLD Space
Miura 5 first stage container
Space · INTA
Flight unit containers · PLATO mission
Science · ITER
Large integration fixture
Defence · Indra
Rugged 19" racks for deployable systems
Defence · Simumak
Load-bearing structure for the Pizarro IFV cabins
Training · Finanzauto
Mobile classroom for machinery operator training
Audiovisual · Santiago Bernabéu Stadium
Flown sound rigging in the stadium roof
Engineering and development
Engineering that also builds.
From requirement to lifted container, with a single point of responsibility. This is how a project evolves in our design office and our workshop.
Discover our engineering → Typical lead times →Illustrative drawing of a typical project
Where failure is not an option.
Space
Launchers, satellites, instruments and MGSE.
Technical containersMGSE and toolingSee sector →
Defence
Rugged systems, containers and command posts.
Rugged racksCommand postsSee sector →
Aerospace
Handling tooling, cradles and maintenance.
ToolingAccessSee sector →
Audiovisual
Stadiums, TV studios, control rooms and tours.
StructuresFlight casesSee sector →
Industry and logistics
Trolleys, platforms and structures for day-to-day operations.
TrolleysPlatformsSee sector →
Training and emergencies
Mobile classrooms and deployable spaces.
Mobile classroomsContainersSee sector →Illescas · Toledo
At the heart of Madrid's aerospace cluster.
Our workshop is in Illescas, next to Airbus and 20 minutes from Getafe. Close enough for a prototype, a last-minute change or an emergency.
- Airbus Illescas3 km
- Airbus Getafe22 km
- Madrid37 km
- INTA Torrejón62 km
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