Weekly launches are scheduled to start in January 2001. HMX principals have extensive experience in innovative launch vehicle design. HMX is conducting proprietary research for a new commercial space venture, and preparing to assist an industry team developing a new bipropellant rocket engine for a space launch vehicle with thrust levels above 30,000 pounds. IOS manufactures everything in-house, including liquid rocket engines, tankage, and guidance systems. At present, IOS is developing low-cost sounding rockets.
Flight tests are in progress.
JPA intends to be the first amateur organization to place a payload into space. The current project is to launch a rocket with a scientific payload to an altitude of 50 miles. This will be accomplished by lofting a launch system to an altitude of 100,000 feet by balloon. Kistler Aerospace is embarking on a monumental journey to create the world's first fully reusable aerospace vehicle. Their goal is to become a delivery service to low earth orbit that will radically realign the economics of doing business in space.