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# PLD Space wins first ESA contract for HALCON rocket navigation system
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2025-09-17-pld-space-esa-halcon-gnc-contract/
- Published: 2025-09-17T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-15T04:00:53.000Z
- Description: Spain's PLD Space won its first ESA contract, worth EUR 995,705 and funded equally with ESA, to build HALCON, a hybrid GNSS/IMU navigation system for its Miura 5 and Miura Next reusable rockets, under the NAVISP Element 2 programme.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Defence and space, #news, #reported, #editor-read

Reported Editor-read [SpaceWatch.Global, 17 September 2025](https://spacewatch.global/2025/09/pld-space-secures-esa-gnc-contract-to-develop-halcon-hybrid-navigation-system/?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** It does not show the navigation system has flown or replaced any foreign made guidance component yet.

**How this item counts.** This item is dated before the index starts on 1 January 2026, so it does not count in the [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/).

**How this item was made.** Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above; read and approved by the editor on 2026-10-14\. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)