About us.... One of the things that Evie and I decided as a small business, was that as a small business, we would support other small businesses, so that they can grow as we grow. Many "mom and pop" and small shops pop up around the country, and face it, it is hard to start a business these days, and we try to support other small businesses in every way we can! That is why in all our sourcing, outside work, and contract work, we try to work with as many smaller businesses as we can. We also want to help smaller kit manufacturers that do not have a wide venue to market their kits in, to market to a wider audience. Sirius kits are made with love, with components sourced from small and family businesses, and are put together with a whole lot of love for the hobby. When you buy a Sirius Rocketry kit, you are not only getting a great kit, but you are supporting all the small businesses that we also request services from. Other lines that we carry, for example FlisKits, and Top Flight Recovery, are also small businesses that are growing with your support, and have been a great source of innovative products made out of a LOVE for the hobby. When we do carry a "large manufacturer," we carry what we think is cool, but not an entire line. Our Estes kits are hand-selected with the cool factor and the building experience in mind, and because "WE LOVE SCALE" (sm), but we do not intend on carrying the entire line, you can find that in any old hobby shop. We look at that kind of thing with the attitude of what a BAR might want, or someone who wants a satisfying build. Sirius Rocketry is a reflection of what I love about the hobby, and thus a lot of the products we carry are based on what excites us about the sport. We like competition, we like high power, we like scale, we like futuristic designs, we like good decal sets, we like a satisfying build, and so on. And we like supposting all those small businesses that have that same kind of love for the hobby. Our prices may not be the best on the web, anyone can sell at a steep discount, and beat the next person's price, and if price is the most important thing, then that is fine. But the small business cannot survive on pricing alone, and we wish to be here creating great kits for a long time! But, what we are striving to do at Sirius Rocketry is to try to make up for that with something "value added" in every order. It may be a freebie put into your shipment, a decal, an extra part, a tech report, a little something that lets you know we appreciate your business, and may just come in handy for you sometime! You never know what else might be inside the box, and we throw in something useful in every order. We are small business, and just about everyone we work with is small business, and as we grow, they grow, and vice-versa. We love this hobby, and hope to be around for a long long time! Cottage kit makers: Contact us to find out how we can help market your quality kits to a wider audience. E-Mail us at seriousmarketing@siriusrocketry.com ! Something not so serious about Sirius..... Serious...or is that Sirius (they are pronounced the same way) humor (and because we love British comedies, humour too....) about us....me, well, me and my wife....well, the company, cuz that is what we are.... How do you pronounce that thing? Syrus? Supliferous? Seer-ee-iss. Now for the education, amateur astronomers that have a telescope already know this, but I don't have a telescope and you probably do not either.... Sirius: pronounced as "serious." The dog star. Other names: Canicula (--No, Canicula Rocketry did not work in 1998, besides it had a wierd and pretty warped Roman feel to it if you know what I mean!) and Aschere (which sounded like the forces ripping off fins at Mach speed...) Brightest star in the sky after the Sun. Over 20 times brighter than the sun, and twice as massive. Not the closest star to us, but only a short 8.6 light years away. What is the closest star? It is Proxima Centauri, the nearest member of the Alpha Centauri triple star system. Light takes only 4.22 years to reach us from Proxima Centauri. In the constellation Canis Major. But that sounded too much like an old model rocket company! (old-timers know who I am talking about) Back to being "serious"... The star Sirius-- Absolute Magnitiude 1.4. Translated as "scorching" (Something one would not really want to do with a model or high-power rocket!) A name for Satellite Radio (used to work in radio but finally got out myself!) Actually Sirius just played right in with our slogan, and happened to be a celestial object....thus the solar/star theme in our logo, taken from the viewpoint of the setting sun from a satellite planet of Sirius. Gotta be serious about rocketry (like I have been for 30 years) to be here in the first place, after all we are: Sirius Rocketry "For the Serious Rocketeer" See how that works? :-) (woof) How many channels do we have? None. No music here. Unless you love the sound of BP and AP roaring in the morning! I LOVE that sound! Plus there is no comaprison to sniffing spent BP motors...AP just is not quite the same..... :-) ______________________
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