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The article talks about the first orbital rocket, while Miura 1 was a suborbital rocket, not capable of reaching orbit (but capable of "reaching space" which means going up and then immediately falling down to Earth, like any suborbital rocket). There's a big difference between reaching orbit and "reaching space" with a suborbital flight. For example, suborbital New Shepard reaches a max speed of 3568 km/h, while to get to orbit, a rocket must accelerate to something around 25000 km/h.

[zamadatix]

Miura 1 was not only suborbital, it even failed to pass the Karman line (by a wide margin) to reach space in any capacity at all in the previous launch attempt. It only made it 46 km, the design capacity is for up to 150 km, and space is generally considered 100 km.

This (new) rocket may get to claim to be the first commercial European rocket to reach space at all on top of the same for an orbital rocket in one go.