October 6, 2006 - Wickman Spacecraft & Propulsion Company (WSPC) has been awarded a two year contract by the United States Army to develop and demonstrate a new solid rocket motor with an innovative pintle rocket nozzle. The rocket nozzle not only controls the thrust level of the missile, but also provides thrust vector control to steer it. The U.S .military needs more capable tactical missiles to hit more sophisticated enemy aircraft and fast moving ground targets. WSPC's new rocket motor would significantly enhance American tactical missile capabilities.

April 6, 2006 - The Air Force Research Laboratory has written an article on WSPC's work on a new Small Launch Vehicle (SLV) on its homepage. The SLV's propellant is WSPC's high performance, environmentally friendly, low cost, phase stabilized ammonium nitrate (PSAN) space booster propellant. Its unique SLV solid rocket motors provide real time controllable thrust with a unique expansion-deflection (E-D) exit cone. The E-D exit cone concept has been verified by CFD analysis and solid rocket motor static firings. The E-D exit cone also provides optimum expansion of the exhaust gases at all altitudes. This enables WSPC's SLV to be ground launched or air launched. These features give WSPC's SLV the highest level of mission versatility to deploy Common Aero Vehicles (CAV) or satellites. WSPC has been supported in this work with U.S. Air Force funding. For more information click here.

July 17, 2004 - Natrona County School District (NCSD), Casper College and University of Cincinnati students successfully launched the largest amateur rocket using ammonium nitrate composite propellant from the NASA Wallops Flight Range.Wickman Spacecraft & Propulsion Company was supporting development of the rocket being built by the students. For more information click here.

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CP Technologies will hold its next rocket motor design class in the Fall of 2008. The class is bundled with our popular "How To Make Amateur Rockets" bookset. During the class students will learn how to design and build their your own solid rocket motors. The instructor will be John Wickman, a professional aerospace engineer and internationally known in the field of rocket propulsion. CP Technologies has been conducting these classes since November, 2003.

A highlight of the course will be when students press the firing button on the control panel to test their rocket motor. It will not be an ordinary firing button or control panel. It is the original firing button and control panel used by Aerojet, once called the "General Motors of Rocketry" by Time magazine. From this historic control panel was test fired solid rocket motors powering Polaris, Minuteman and MX missiles including tactical missiles such as Sidewinder, Maverick, Harpoon and many others. Students and their rocket motors will merge with solid rocket history as they press the firing button.

The High Plains Rocket Society is high power and amateur rocketry club based in Casper, Wyoming. Rocket launches are held on a monthly basis, Spring through Fall, with commercial (certified and uncertified) and experimental/homemade motors permitted at all launches.

The Amateur Rocketry Society of America's (ARSA) primary goal is to enable US citizens to enjoy all forms of non-professional rocketry.