Updated April 30, 2008
Thank you for making this year even better than the last.
In 2008, we will see the 10th anniversary of Sirius Rocketry as a concept/company,
and in 2008-2009, we will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of the
company as the official Sirius Rocketry, LLC. I ask that you join the
crowd, and spread the word about Sirius Rocketry when you can, wherever
you can.
We have several new products planned for this summer,
and also have taken over the Moldin'
Oldies product line, which will slowly become available in our online
store.
Please help us by spreading the word, linking to us on
your website, and telling your friends. And tell us how you helped to
spread the word as a "Sirius Warrior" in 2008 by emailing
us your links and pictures and stories and threads to siriuslypromoting@siriusrocketry.com.
We will be posting your photos, posting your stories, and because you
help spread the word and let us know about it, entering your name into
a drawing for a 1:64 Saturn V kit or a chance at several other great
prizes to be announced soon. Many of our customers have been silent
because they have been extremely happy, but we need you to talk about
us!
Several new kits are just around the corner as well.
Dave
Updated December 5, 2007
The Sirius Rocketry S.S. Cestris is finally here and available
in our online store! Everyone has been so patient in waiting for this
one, I will not go into too much depth here for a day or two. Just check
out the S.S. Cestris page, and then go to
the online store to order yours!
And don't forget to come join us at NARCON (article below)!
Happy Holidays!
Dave
Updated December 4, 2007
Sirius Rocketry will be attending NARCON for the fifth
year in a row as NARCON 2008
returns to Rochester, Minnesota for the second year in a row March 14-16,
2008. Special guests: Vern and Gleda Estes! Mark your calendar for this
event, and check out the NARCON
2008 website for details and to register. Sirius Rocketry will again
be in the vendors section, and providing door prizes for the event.
We would love to see you there!
Dave
Updated December 2, 2007
Days like these remind me why Sirius Rocketry may not
forever be located in Wisconsin! Too much snow and too much snow removal
this weekend!
It reminds me how winter in the upper Midwest to me has
always been building season. What else is there to do all imprisoned
in a house all winter but spend some time on your favorite hobbies!
Watch this space. Looks like this will be the week for
a few neat things here!
Dave
Updated November 22, 2007
Happy Thanksgiving!
Halftime of the Detroit-Green Bay Thanksgiving game, and
a few moments to post an update on the news page. We are very thankful
here at Sirius Rocketry, since you have made 2007 our best year ever!
Just a short time away from the release of our S.S. Cestris
kit. Stay tuned here for updates! Been spending an awful lot of time
in the shop getting this one ready for the Christmas season, and it
looks like we will hit the mark. So check here after the Thanksgiving
weekend for more information.
Have a great holiday, don't eat too much, and...halftime
is over...back to the festivities!
Dave
Updated November 7, 2007
What a crazy summer and last couple of months or so....
Amazing how real life, and having teenagers, and real jobs and (did
I say) real life can sometimes sidetrack things!
There is LIGHT at the end of the tunnel for the S.S. Cestris kit. I
have been a "vacuforming machine" the last month, and there
is now a huge pile of the vacuformed nose cones that will be going into
the final kits this week. The S.S. Cestris manuals are now finished
after many revisions in both the kit and the manual, parts are coming
in, and I am spending every minute of my spare time away from the real
job getting the parts and kits ready for final bagging. I also had to
make sure that everything was just right.
I anticipate the kit being available in plenty of time for Christmas,
most likely around Thanksgiving. But, like Scotty on Star Trek, I should
probably double my estimates on times to appear as a "miracle worker"
when they come in in half the time of the estimate! Maybe quadruple
them! :-)
Outside of the Saturn V and the Atlantis, this has been one of the
most complex kits to produce yet, in part because of the complex shape
of the nose cone, and the tweaking that had to be done to make such
a complex shape fly. Thus it took a little longer than both you and
I expected, but it will be well worth the wait!
To answer a question or two:
The nose cone WILL be available seperately, as a replacement for the
Cestris, and for scratchbuilding purposes. More "Command Cone"
kits are being produced than Cestris kits, so there will be extras available.
Keep in mind that since the "Command Cone" is a vacuform kit,
some assembly will be required! The "Command Cone" was designed
from the ground up to be bagged seperately with its own instruction
manual, so that makes it easy to offer it as a separate kit, and we
will.
The "Command Cone" will fit a BT-55 tube.
Final costing is being done on the Cestris kit, and the prices of raw
materials keep changing, so we have not arrived on a final price as
of yet, but it should be in line with our other kits of the same complexity.
Lots of emails have come our way as the excitement builds about this
kit, and I have to answer most questions here for now.
Some of the other features of the kit will be mentioned here shortly.
The main answer to most questions is to tune in right here on the news
page for the latest!
And while you are waiting, please look at our other offerings and order
what you can to support our development of even more great stuff from
Sirius Rocketry!
Gotta get back to the Sirius Skunk Works now!
David
Updated August 22, 2007
While you are waiting for the latest kit and products
from Sirius Rocketry, why don't you try a little social networking rocketry
style at Our Planet, Rocketry
Planet's latest addition to the increasingly dominant rocketry portal.
We'll even be stopping there from time to time!
Back to the shop!
Dave
Updated July 25, 2007
It has been a fantastic summer, and indeed a very BUSY
one! Not only have we been hitting as many launches as we can in the
local area, but we are still preparing to go to yet another national
event to complete our NAR Trifecta as we go to NARAM this weekend for
the sport rocketry weekend. We head to Eat Cheese or Fly the weekend
after that, and a few other events in the weeks following.
The new kit is ALMOST into final production, and we are
posting news here now as it gets closer to release. As a small manufacturer,
we have to now refer questions about the release of the new kit to this
page. While we appreciate all the interest, we need to focus our efforts
on getting it ready to be delivered to those who are eagerly awaiting
it. .Hope you understand! Back to the production line!
Stay tuned here for details!
Updated June 7, 2007
We are extremely happy to be adding selected Semroc kits
to the store! The first batch is coming in this week, with more to be
added in the future. Many of the Semroc kits fit our "likes"
here at Sirius, like scale and cool sci-fi type kits. We have added
a few of their fantastic builders' scale models, as well as one of their
very latest. If you are not familiar with Semroc kits, you should be!
Stop by the store and check them out!
Updated June 5, 2007
Had a great time with old friends and meeting new ones
at the NSL 2007 in Muncie, Indiana this past weekend. It was great putting
some faces to names I already knew, and once again having great times
with the friends I have made over the years. Even managed to see a couple
of people for the first time in over ten years!
The Sirius Rocketry booth was between our friends at Flis
Kits and our other friends at Balsa Machining Service. I don't know
if we all worked more or talked more, it always seems when the vendors
get together there is endless good conversation.
A big thank you to all of those who stopped by to say
hello, and another huge thank you to the Rocketeers of Central Indiana
for hosting the NSL this year!
Sirius Rocketry will also be attending the sport flying
weekend at NARAM this summer, making
it a year where we will have been able to attend all three national
NAR events! We hope to see you there!
Updated March 13, 2007
Had a great time at NARCON 2007, and would like to thank
MASA for hosting such
a fun NARCON. It was great meeting some of you for the first time, some
of our customers face-to-face for the first time, and also meeting up
with a lot of old friends. Stay tuned for some pictures from NARCON
as soon as we get caught up! In the meantime, I promised this young
NARCON participant a place on our web page!
Updated February 8, 2007
Sirius Rocketry starts the 2007 road show at NARCON 2007, March 9-11
in Rochester Minnesota. This time, celebrating 50 years of the NAR and
Model Rocketry. We will be attending NARCON for the 4th year in a row
with our store in tow. We are working hard to have some neat things
to show you at NARCON. We look forward to seeing you there!
Among new product introductions planned for this year, Sirius Rocketry
is also planning to attend several other national events in 2007. We
will announce them here as we firm up our 2007 schedule.
Updated January 4, 2007
Happy New Year and THANKS for a fantastic 2006! We're working hard
in the Sirius labs to bring you more great product in 2007!
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