Yesterday, I saw this documentary: How To Build A Satellite (look at these intervals: 27:29 – 30:16) and after seeing it, I had a question but I couldn't find any answer for it. My question is this:
Why do the satellite manufacturing companies themselves make their crystals (or crystal oscillators)?
For example, there are so many crystals and crystal oscillators available at Digikey, but they don't want to use any of those. Why?
Best Answer
The Astrium website says
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