Rakon Limited

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About Rakon Limited

Rakon was founded on 4 April 1967 by Warren Robinson in Auckland, New Zealand, growing out of his marine-radio business Marlin Electronics, which needed region-specific quartz crystals for its radios. By 1971 the company had moved to dedicated premises, employed over 30 staff, and was exporting to Australia and Southeast Asia.

Over more than five decades Rakon grew into a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of frequency control products, with wholly owned subsidiaries in the UK and France and manufacturing operations in India, Taiwan, China, Singapore and South Korea. The company is listed on the NZX under ticker RAK.

In the space sector, Rakon has over 40 years of flight heritage supplying frequency control components and subsystems to government and commercial programmes, including Chandrayaan, Mangalyaan, Galileo, Mars Express, Mars 2020, Sentinel and the International Space Station. Rakon's France manufacturing sites (Pont-Sainte-Marie and Mougins) hold ESA CoQ 333C and ESA CoQ 334C certifications alongside ISO 9001:2015 and EN 9100:2018; in March 2026 the company opened a new ISO 8 cleanroom in Pont-Sainte-Marie dedicated to space timing and navigation subsystem production. Rakon's space portfolio spans Traditional Space (GEO missions up to 20 years), NewSpace (LEO/smallsat constellations, 5-12 year missions), and ground-station equipment.

Milestones

  • 1967 Founded by Warren Robinson in Auckland
  • 1971 Moved to dedicated premises, began exporting
  • 2026 Opened new ISO 8 cleanroom for space timing/navigation subsystems in Pont-Sainte-Marie, France; became a division of Bourns Inc.

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ESCC Qualified Parts List (QPL) space clock oscillator (4–100 MHz) for mission-critical satellite timing with −55 to +110°C operating range.

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NewSpace multi-constellation GNSS receiver for CubeSat and small satellite position, navigation, and timing applications.

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Integrated NewSpace Master Reference Oscillator subsystem providing the primary frequency and timing reference for CubeSat and small satellite systems.

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Integrated NewSpace S-band transceiver subsystem for CubeSat and small satellite TT&C (Tracking, Telemetry and Command) communications.

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Hi-Rel space temperature-compensated crystal oscillator (10–100 MHz, ≤±0.5–5 ppm) for satellite frequency reference applications.

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NewSpace TCXO at 80 and 100 MHz with ±2–4 ppm stability for small satellite and CubeSat frequency reference.

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Ultra-stable space OCXO at 10/10.23/10.24 MHz with 2.5×10⁻¹³ Allan deviation at 1s for navigation satellite and scientific mission timing.

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NewSpace OCXO with 10–125 MHz range and ±1–1000 ppb frequency pulling for LEO constellations and CubeSat timing.

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MIL/ECSS-qualified space oscillator with 10^-10 stability class, used operationally by international space agencies for decades.

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High-reliability space-qualified oven-controlled crystal oscillator (5–10 MHz) with 10⁻¹⁰ stability for precision satellite timing.

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