Aerospace
The aerospace industry demands connection technologies that are flawless – T&G can provide them.
The requirements for components and cable systems used in aerospace are very unique and demanding and need to achieve highest scores for:
- Highly variable temperatures
- Shock resistant
- Low insertion loss
- Low mass and small size
- Low mass loss due outgassing
- Irradiation resistant
FOFRA - Fiber Optical Flexible Routing Assembly
With attributes perfect for the aerospace and space sector:
- Small
- Compact
- Flexible
- Light Mass
- Accomodates complex routing patterns
- Automatic routing
Routing a larger number of fibers is a time consuming and meticulous task. T&G Elektro offers the FOFRA (Fiber Optical Flexible Routing Assembly) product line which is able to accommodate designs after specifications of the customer with a high precision automatic routing. The FOFRA is an optical circuit board that offers a protected layout environment for fibers in a systematic high density pattern with a great manufacturing repeatability.
When ESA was looking for experienced manufacturers of interconnection solutions, T&G Elektro took an opportunity and included the space industry into its business profile. Since then T&G Elektro have been constantly improving its fiber optical products to adapt to this rapidly developing sector.
To be present in that market, it requires a lot of research and innovation, as fiber optical harnesses need to be designed and manufactured in a way that will withstand harsh space environment conditions like exposure to extreme heat and cold cycling, ultra-vacuum, atomic oxygen and high energy radiation.
PROBA-V
Launched in May 2013 on the PROBA-V satellite, T&G Elektro entered the space industry with the High dEnsity space foRM cOnnector Demonstration (HERMOD). HERMOD features four MPO/MTP assemblies with one channel per assembly monitoring the bit error rate at 100Mbps. To this day there have been no bit errors.
