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These pages are a disorganized collection of stuff. Some pages are specific to things we sell, and some are more general.

We did a major redesign of the Web site a couple of years ago; it was quite a hodgepodge after nine years of operation. The new site is a lot cleaner and more professional-looking, but we found that those old pages had a lot of useful information... and besides, we sort of missed them. We plan to gather up the best parts of the old site and put them here.

 If you have questions about anything you read here, or would like to see information on a topic, please drop us a note.

Articles

Video clips

bulletWhat Are Hybrid Rocket Motors?
bulletGetting Started With Hybrid Rocket Motors; a brief overview of what you'll need
bulletWhy are our Bulk Pack rocket kits perfect for schools?
bulletDoing Rockets: a quick guide to your first model rocket class

 

bulletVideo clip of filling and firing of a HyperTEK I220 with our RTLS system
bulletVideo clip of HyperTEK J powered CANSAT flight
bulletVideo clip of "evil sounding" RATT Works H70 hybrid flight
bulletVideo clip of our Nose Cone Machine in operation
bulletUsing Pyrodex smokeless powder in Ejection Canisters, movies of tests
bulletIvan Galysh flies a ProPoly H70 hybrid motor, ignited with GOX and steel wool.
bulletIvan's fiberglass Arcas honks on a HyperTEK J!
bulletTest flight of GPS-enabled CANSAT on a Sky Ripper H motor
bulletTest flight of new Flight Computer on HyperTEK J

Instruction Manuals for some of our products

bulletSuper Six rocket kit
bulletD-Region Tomahawk rocket kit
bulletPolaris rocket kit
bullet Quark Star rocket kit
bulletPioneer rocket kit
bulletPolaris-X rocket kit
bulletGO Box Launch System
bulletUniversal Launch System User Manual

 

CANSAT Information

Contrail Rockets

bullet More CANSAT info
bulletARLISS CANSAT Program web site
bulletCANSAT Lesson Plan
Section 1: What Is a Satellite?
Section 2: CANSAT Software Development
Section 3: Structure
Section 4: Working with Sensors
Section 5: Radio Communications
Section 6: Final Assembly

Section 7: Data Analysis
bulletCANSAT Receiver plans!
916 MHz receiver
433 MHz receiver
bulletCANSAT Software
new version coming
bulletContrail Rockets information page
bulletVideo clip of Contrail K543 at NYPOWER
bulletVideo clip of Contrail K888 at NYPOWER
bulletContrail J333 in a 4-inch diameter rocket at Great Meadow, VA