Rakon is one of the world’s largest providers of high reliability
frequency control products. It's superb quality solutions are found in
Space, Defence and Industrial applications which require the most
stringent performance criteria. This is why many government and
commercial programmes use Rakon oscillators across the globe, wherever
high performance is required under the most demanding conditions. Rakon
continuously develops state of the art frequency control products at the
cutting edge of innovative technology.
Industry Contribution:
- Rakon has a proven record of taking Space specifications and creating high reliability and cost effective solutions in order to meet the most demanding requirements.
- Rakon is involved in most of the scientific programmes managed by the European Space Agency (ESA), and has supplied ESA qualified crystals since the 1980s. Rakon develops new products & technologies under funding from ESA and CNES (French National Centre for Space Studies).
- As your strategic frequency control partner, Rakon can provide standard products or customised solutions, ranging from high performance crystals, all the way through to complex subsystems.
Space Product Advantages:
- Rakon space grade oscillators (Flight Models) are designed to meet TID of 100 kRad, low dose rate (36 – 360 rad/h) as per ESCC22900 and latch-up free up to LET of 60 MeV/mg/cm².
- Rakon is among the top worldwide suppliers of Ultra Stable OCXO for Space. The mini-USO (Ultra Stable Oscillator) offers a guaranteed frequency stability vs. temperature of 0.1 ppb (-20 to +50°C) and short-term stability (Allan variance) of 5E-13 from 1 to 100 seconds.
- For Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites & constellations, Rakon offers RadHard COTS products (e.g. XO, VCXO), as small as 5 x 3.2 x 1.2 mm with a guaranteed radiation hardness of 30 kRad (TID) and 40 MeV/mg/cm² (SEL).
In case of technical or application questions, our international team of application engineers will be pleased to support You under the following e-mail address:
marketing@microdis.net
Broad range of services offered by Microdis are available by our sales offices across Eastern Europe.
Complete information regarding Rakon can be found on: www.rakon.com
