About RCS
Non-professional rocketry in many forms has been a tradition in the United States since the 1940's. Up until recently much of this activity has been in the form of model and high-power rocketry using commercially manufactured black powder and composite propellant rocket motors. The formation of organized experimental rocketry groups, the increasing federal regulatory burden and other factors have combined over the past few years to encourage a growing number of individuals to experiment with high-energy composite propellants and rocket motors of their own design. A number of sources of information and materials have become available to help those who desire to participate in this activity with success and safety.

RCS Rocket Motor Components was founded by Gary Rosenfield in 1995 to offer AeroTech RMS-compatible parts for custom composite propellant rocket motor fabrication. These parts included molded phenolic nozzles, propellant casting tubing, phenolic and fiberglass motor casing material, phenolic and paper liner tubing, o-rings, casting plugs, forward & aft insulator washers, and delay/smoke charge insulator tubes.

Between 2000 and 2002, RCS added several new phenolic nozzles and a Resource Library CD-ROM to its list of products, and updated the RCS website to include some of the Resource Library files as free downloads, including the Air Force Chemical Equilibrium Specific Impulse (Isp) Code, helpful design calculators and others.

In 2003, a number of specialized propellant chemicals were made available. RCS announced its RCS Institute of Experimental Rocket Technology (IERT) "Advanced Propellant Formulation and Processing Course", the first in a series of advanced experimental propellant & rocket motor courses to be conducted in Cedar City, UT.

In April of 2004, RCS acquired the intellectual and physical assets of AeroTech, Inc. and Industrial Solid Propulsion (ISP), Inc. RCS now markets the existing AeroTech and ISP product lines under the "AeroTech Consumer Aerospace", "Econojet", "Kosdon by RCS", "Industrial Solid Propulsion" and "ISP" trade names. Also in 2004, RCS began to distribute the Rouse-Tech line of CD3 CO2-powered rocket recovery deployment devices.

In 2005, RCS became an authorized distributor of Synco™ Super-Lube™ synthetic o-ring grease. RCS alco introduced a number of new products including plastic delay adapters, molded delay and ejection bulkheads and a 75mm single-throat glass-phenolic molded nozzle.

In 2006, RCS introduced AP Blends™, a line of custom-compounded blends of multi-modal Ammonium Perchlorate which enabled experimenters to formulate high solids castable propellants, and the EMK™ Experimental Motor Kits™ in 'F' and 'G' sizes.

We want to offer a special thank you to all our loyal customers worldwide who have made RCS THE source for experimental rocket motor components!

RCS Legal Status
RCS Rocket Motor Components (RCS), Inc. is a Utah corporation which is licensed by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATFE) as a manufacturer of low explosives (ATFE lic. no. 9-UT-021-21-6M-00212). RCS is licensed in Cedar City, UT for the manufacture and sale of rocket motors and related products, sales of rocket motor chemicals and components and for conducting technical training seminars (Cedar City lic. no. 133588).

RCS Regulatory Documents in PDF Format
U.S. Department of State CJ Ruling on RCS IERT Course