1998

Launch 1 - April 1, 1998 Fergie 1 @ Monroe, WA - Fact Sheet

Launch 2 - April 1, 1998 Fergie I @ Monroe, WA - Fact Sheet

Launch 3 - April 25, 1998 Alice @ Sheridan, OR

Launch 4 - April 25, 1998 Fergie I @ Sheridan, OR

Launch 5 - April 25, 1998 Fergie I @ Sheridan, OR

Launch 6 - April 26, 1998 Alice @ Sheridan, OR Fact Sheet

Launch 7 - April 26, 1998 Fergie I @ Sheridan, OR

June 1998: SCRUBBED - Weather; Engine Test: 54mm burn - Monroe, WA.

June 1998: SCRUBBED - Weather; Engine Test: 38mm burn - Monroe, WA.

June 1998: SCRUBBED - Weather; Viper IV Vehicle Fergie I - Kent, WA; test new cluster ignition system, new engines; Estimated Altitude 5000 feet.

July 11, 1998: SCRUBBED - Weather; Viper IV Vehicle Fergie I - Kent, WA; 2 staged (8) engines; Estimated Altitude 5000 feet.

Engine Test: Sucessful August 2, 1998: Engine rental to client - one of three cluster performed perfect.

August 2, 1998: SCRUBBED - staff personal emergency; Viper IV Fergie I - Monroe, WA; 2 staged (*) engines; Estimated Altitude 5000'

Launch 8: September 6, 1998: Monroe Washington; Viper IV Fergie 1; 2 D Engines air started after 2 composite E Engines; Estimated Altitude 3500 feet. Fact Sheet

December 1998: SCRUBBED - Weather; Loc IV Vehicle Alice - Monroe, WA; test data aquisition system; test ground station tracking Automatic Position Reporting System; Estimated Altitude 5000 feet.

December 1998: SCRUBBED - Weather; Viper IV Vehicle Fergie I - Monroe, WA; 4 ground lit composite E moters; Estimated Altitude 5000 feet.

1999

Launches 9, 10, 11 - March/April 1999: Successful - multiple launches of Alice(1) and Fergie 1(2) to test new composite engines; Moses Lake Launch Site. Top Altitude 6000 feet.

September 1999: SCRUBBED - Weather; LASRDV (Lower Atmosphere Suborbital Research Delivery Vehicle)TM - location Monroe, WA; test recovery, guidance and communication systems; shake down flight.

October 1999:SCRUBBED - Weather; TWIN UNIT LAUNCH of 2 LASRDV's (Lower Atmosphere Suborbital Research Delivery Vehicle)TM; Modified D Region Tomahawk Missile design - Moses Lake, WA - test advanced recovery & guidance, data aquisition system; test color video transmission system; Atmospheric gas sampling unit testing; advanced engine systems; test ground station tracking of twin rockets under simultaneous launch with Automatic Position Reporting System; Estimated Altitude 16,000 feet.

2000

Launches 12, 13 - Spring 2000 - Successful launch of Thunderocket. Two flights to test system and operations

2000 Flight Operations have been restricted due to high burn hazards at launch locations. We are currently working to establish a new launch facility to increase the launch regularity.

2001

Launches 14, 15, 16, 17 - May 12, 2001 - Back with a vengenance - 4 Successful launches from Dayton, Washington facility operations of Blue Mountain Rocketeers:

• One of a Kind - First test of HASPDV Project engines on first test of rocket for orbital operations. Initial launch broke sound barrier 4 feet off launch rail. Alititude and burn time classified.
• Rocsam 1 and Rocsam 1A dual rocket launch to test rapid deploy and launch system of Thunderockets in field operations.
• Two Stage MAPS !C launched to test scaleability and configuration. Second stage broke sound barrier on ignition.

Launch 18 - July 14, 2001 - Successful - First fully operation payload launch of telemetry equipment and radiosonde weather instruments from Dayton, Washington facility.

• Tested at 20Gs fully active.
• Continuous feed of data from instruments during and after recovery with no interruptions or failures.
• First attempted commercial payload delivery and recovery successful

October 2001 - SCRUBBED- Tested Instrument Packages on ground at Dayton, Washington facility - winds too high to launch.

2002

Launch 19 - Scheduled for March 9, 2002

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