Solid-Fuel Hobby Rocket Company Hopes to Soar From New Utah Facility

RCS Rocket Motor Components has also launched a museum honoring the history of model rocketry.

Bob Sanford, designer of the AeroTech "Initiator" model rocket, displays an actual version during the grand opening of RCS Rocket Motor Components' new world headquarters and museum to hobby rocketry in Cedar City, Utah, on June 27, 2024. Allan Stein/The Epoch Times

CEDAR CITY, Utah—The small hobby rocket kits that many kids built at home and launched into the sky have come a long way since the early days of model rocketry.

On June 27, RCS Rocket Motor Components (RCS), the world’s largest producer of solid composite propellant hobby rocket motors, celebrated the opening of its new world headquarters, museum, and store in Cedar City, Utah, with plans to carry the consumer and aerospace industry even higher with technology innovation.