ACORDE
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Credit:SKAO. South-Africa site
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Converter and filter bank
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Boards checking at Lab
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Ka Band LNAs redundancy system
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Pic legend 1: Credit:SKAO. South-Africa site
Pic legend 2: Converter and filter bank
Pic legend 3: Boards checking at Lab
Pic legend 4: Ka Band LNAs redundancy system

General information

  • Company name
    ACORDE
  • Adress
    El Castro 22N, 39011, Santander, SPAIN
  • Turnover
    7.34 million EUR in year 2023
  • Employees
    52 in year 2023
  • SME
    YES
  • Contact Info:
    • Phone
      +34942764400
    • Email
      acorde@acorde.com

Activity and Skills

ACORDE, founded in 1999 and NATO AQAP-2110 certified, designs, develops and manufactures in-house high-performance RF subsystems from S band up to Q band, being a world reference in X and Ka bands. The company provides robust, reliable and field proven solutions to customers worldwide in Defense, Space, Scientific, Energy and Telecom markets.

ACORDE manufactures compact and lightweight high power BUCs, SSPAs, LNBs, LNAs, TLTs and frequency converters, in stand-alone or redundancy configurations, and versatile approaches such as dual and quad sub-bands integrations, both in standard and built-to-spec products. Customised RF electronics and advanced M&C systems are also provided to our demanding customers, all over the world.

Contracts for Big Science facilities

[SKAO - AAC OMNISYS ] SKA MID Band 1 Feed Package Controller (2023 - 2025)
ACORDE provides the RF boards controlling the Feed Package of Band 1 Antennas for the South-African site of the program.
[ESA - ESTEC ] Event Horizon Imager (2018 - 2018)
ACORDE provided RF modules (amplifiers and multipliers) for the ESTEC laboratory, aimed at testing the instrument, whose purpose is the high-resolution imaging of the shadows of supermassive black holes from space.
[OTHER - INTA ] BEPI COLOMBO Test Facilities (2010 - 2014)
ACORDE provided High-Power RF amplifiers (18-40 GHz) for INTA testing laboratory, for RF the testing of BEPI COLOMBO, PAZ and GALILEO space programs.

Relevant R&D projects

[Non disclosable Customer ] -Deep Space Receivers (2021 - 2023)
Redundancy LNAs systems for Deep Space data reception.
[ALPHASAT ] -ESA-ALPHASAT (2012 - 2014)
Aldo Paraboni Experiment. Dual Ka/Q band LNB.
[PAZ ] -Ground Testing Equipment (2010 - 2012)
PAZ Satellite ICCS and RF EGSE Instruments

Certifications