Space Products, HI-RELiability

Product catalog summary

Overview: Vectron International is a leader in high-reliability space products, offering crystal oscillators and filters for global space programs. The document details their product offerings, heritage, and specifications for various oscillator models.

Product Specifications:

Crystal Oscillators: Includes XTAL, XO, VCXO, TCXO, OCXO, and EMXO, each with features like temperature compensation and voltage control.
Filters: Offers TFS (SAW Filters), LCF (LC Filters), and MCF (Monolithic Crystal Filters) for frequency control.

Space Programs:

North American Programs: Includes Apollo, GPS, Hubble Space Telescope, and Mars missions.
European Programs: Includes Cassini-Huygens, Galileo, and Rosetta.
Asian Programs: Includes AMOS, GSAT, and Koreasat.

Key Products:

OCXO: Precise temperature control with models like OX-249 and OX-029, offering frequency stability as tight as 5 ppb.
EMXO: Miniaturized design with fast warm-up and low power consumption, with models like EX-209.
TCXO: High-reliability models with Vectron's DOC200103 specification, offering multiple screening and package choices.
XO: High-reliability clock oscillators with Vectron's OS-68338 specification, providing multiple screening and package options.

Heritage and Expertise: Vectron has a rich history in frequency control, contributing to the first successful U.S. space mission in 1958, and continues to lead in providing reliable components for military and commercial space applications.

Vectron Frequency Control University (FCU): Offers training on manufacturing processes and design information for crystals and oscillators, available globally.

Contact Information: Vectron International has locations worldwide, including the U.S., Germany, China, and Singapore, providing global support and innovation.

Specifications and Standards: The document outlines testing and inspection standards like MIL-STD-883 and MIL-STD-202, ensuring components meet high reliability standards.

Package Dimensions and Frequency Range: Lists different package styles and frequency ranges, such as 12 Lead Flatpack and 14 Pin DIP, supporting frequencies from 0.35 MHz to 100 MHz.

Voltage Controlled Crystal Oscillators (VCXO): VCXOs allow frequency adjustment via control voltage, with models like VX-509 and VX-209 offering different package styles and frequency ranges.

Precision Crystals and Blanks: Provides precision quartz crystals for military and commercial use, emphasizing reliability and performance.

Filter Technology: Offers a range of filters, including SAW, monolithic crystal, and LC filters, for space applications.

Testing Capabilities: Lists in-house and external testing methods for environmental and mechanical stress, ensuring components meet rigorous standards.

Production and Quality Assurance: Vectron's facilities are equipped with clean rooms and state-of-the-art equipment, ensuring high-quality production.

Quality Assurance and Certification: Vectron is committed to superior quality, service, and specification compliance, with AS9100 certification and real-time X-ray quality verification.

Quality Policy: The company's quality policy was last revised in May 2012 (Rev# 006).

Global Locations: Vectron International has headquarters in Hudson, NH, USA, with additional locations in the U.S., Germany, China, and Singapore.

Product Offerings: Specializes in high-reliability space products, including various types of crystal and oscillators, and offers filters like SAW, LC, and Monolithic Crystal Filters.

Catalog excerpts

Space Products Space Products Vectron International Helping Customers Innovate, Improve & Grow World-Wide Locations United States VI Hudson, Corporate Headquarters 267 Lowell Road Hudson, NH 03051 Tel: 1.888.328.7661 Fax: 1.888.329.8328 * Military/Space Center of Excellence VI Mount Holly Springs 100 Watts Street Mount Holly Springs, PA 17065 Tel: 1.717.486.3411 Fax: 1.717.486.5920 VI Cincinnati 4914 Gray Road Cincinnati, OH 45232 Tel: 1.513.542.5555 Fax: 1.513.542.5146 Space Products p Europe VI Neckarbischofsheim Landstrasse, D-74924 Neckarbischofsheim, Germany Tel: +49 (0) 7268.8010 Fax: +49 (0) 7268.801281 Hi-Reliabili Hi-Reliability VI Teltow Potsdamer Strasse 18 D-14513 Teltow, Germany Tel: +49 (0) 3328.4784.17 Fax: +49 (0) 3328.4784.30 Crystal & Oscillators XTAL - Quartz Crystals XO - Clock Oscillators VCXO - Voltage Controlled Crystal Oscillators TCXO - Temperature Compensated Crystal Oscillators OCXO - Oven Controlled Crystal Oscillators EMXO - Evacuated Miniaturized Crystal Oscillators Asia VI Shanghai 1589 Century Avenue, the 19th Floor Chamtime International Financial Center Shanghai, China Tel: 86.21.60812888 Fax: 86.21.61633598 VI Singapore 56 Serangoon North Avenue 4, #06-01 Singapore, 555851 Tel: 65.65551926 Fax: 65.65554377 www.vectron.com Filters TFS - SAW Filters LCF - LC Filters MCF - Monolithic Crystal Filters Helping Customers Innovate, Improve & Grow Rev# 006 May, 2012 www.vectron.com

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Our Heritage The Vectron Family Tree We’re proud to say that the United States’ first successful space exploration mission, the launch in 1958 of a Jupiter-C rocket carrying the Explorer Satellite, carried our frequency control products. Today, we draw on the experience and expertise gained in those early years to remain the leading supplier of frequency control devices for military and commercial space programs, utilizing state-of-the-art design, manufacturing and control systems to meet and exceed customer requirements for reliability, performance and value. McCOY / OAK / CORNING VECTRON INTERNATIONAL...

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Oven Controlled Crystal Oscillator (OCXO) Evacuated Miniature Crystal Oscillator (EMXO) An OCXO is either an XO or VCXO combined with an oven maintaining the crystal unit at a precise temperature over the operating temperature range. The OCXO is the most accurate of all crystal oscillators. An EMXO is a unique miniaturized oven controlled oscillator in an evacuated enclosure. This design provides a very small physical size, low profile, low power consumption, fast warm-up and tight temperature stabilities. OCXO Space Platforms Space Model # Legacy Space Model # Package Style Output Frequency...

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An example of building a part number using our DOC200103 specification: High-Reliability Temperature Compensated Crystal Oscillators (TCXO) 2101 R 100M00000 M B S Model # (Table 1) Screening Option per Table below A TCXO is an XO or VCXO combined with temperature compensation providing output stabilities as tight as ±0.5ppm over the operating temperature range. Design Pedigree A Space Level TCXO without generating an SCD? Input Voltage R = Class S Components, Swept Quartz B = Class B Components, Swept Quartz Temperature Stability A = ±0.5ppm, 0°C to +50°C B = ±1ppm, 0°C to +50°C D = ±1ppm, 0°C...

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Screening Options High-Reliability Clock Oscillators (XO) Operation Listing Requirements & Conditions Option A Option B Option C Option D Option E Option F Option G Option X Screening MIL Class Similarity K 100% B100% S100% K+ 100% B 100% S 100% 100% EM 100% XO (Crystal Oscillator or Clock Oscillator) = An uncompensated, fixed frequency oscillator. A Space Level Clock Oscillator without generating an SCD? Non-Destruct Bond Pull Vectron’s OS-68338 Spec. is the answer! Why OS-68338? No SCD to write No Additional Qualification Required Quicker Delivery Lower Overall Cost Multiple Screening Choices...

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High-Reliability Voltage Controlled Crystal Oscillators (VCXO) VCXO (Voltage Controlled Crystal Oscillator) = A VCXO is an uncompensated XO with a control voltage input, which allows the user to shift the frequency by ±50 ppm up to ±200 ppm. Vectron International has a nice selection of space qualified VCXO platforms in both surface mount and through hole configurations. See the selection chart below VCXO Space Platforms Space Model # Legacy Space Model # VX-509 Precision Crystals and Blanks Vectron International’s state-of-the-art crystal manufacturing facility in Cincinnati Ohio employs some...

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SAW Filters Vectron’s Precision Filter Capability Vectron International, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of precision Crystal, SAW and LC Filters for the Military and Space market place. We have been manufacturing filters since 1956 and have supplied these products for thousands of different military applications. Whether your application is ground based, ship based, airborne or in deep space, Vectron has the engineering capability and manufacturing expertise necessary to assure the success of your project. Most filters we manufacture are considered “custom” and we have thousands of successful...

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SDRL’s & Special Contract Requirements General Notes of Interest Program Management Traceability Class S per MIL-PRF-55310: Swept Quartz Material DPA (Destructive Physical Analysis) Radiation Tolerant Active Devices Long Term Aging Predictions Element Evaluation Real Time Radiographic Inspection Acceptance Test Procedure Pre-Cap Customer Inspection and Final Customer Inspection Qualification Test Procedure Government Source Inspection Vectron International is the ONLY company approved for Class S oscillators per MIL-PRF-55310. We pride ourselves in having this unique approval. However, there...

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