VACCO Industries

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About VACCO Industries

VACCO Industries was founded in 1954 as Vacuum and Air Components Company of America to design, develop, and manufacture high-performance valves for the rapidly growing missile and space industries. Headquartered in South El Monte, California, the company has grown into a premier designer and manufacturer of specialty valves, filters, and fluid control products serving defense, space, and commercial markets.

In the space sector, VACCO supplies propellant management systems, micro-propulsion thrusters, cold-gas propulsion systems, and precision filtration products for satellites, planetary spacecraft, and launch vehicles. VACCO components have flown on landmark missions including the Mars Curiosity and Perseverance rovers, DART asteroid deflection mission, and numerous commercial satellite constellations. The company's etched disc filters — a technology developed in the 1960s — remain a benchmark for precision propellant filtration.

VACCO's product portfolio includes isolation valves, latch valves, flow control valves, proportional valves, filter assemblies, and fully integrated propulsion kits for CubeSats and small satellites. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of RBC Bearings (NYSE: RBC) and maintains AS9100 and ISO 9001 quality certifications.

With over 70 years of flight heritage, VACCO has been involved in more than 200 space programs and is regarded as one of the most trusted suppliers of fluid control technology in the aerospace industry.

Milestones

  • 1953 VACCO Industries founded in California
  • 1961 Began producing flight-qualified etched disc propellant and pressurant filters
  • 1964 Introduced Wintec metal mesh filtration technology
  • 1988 Introduced the VACCO latch valve product family, now an industry standard
  • 2018 MarCO cold-gas micro-propulsion systems power first CubeSats to fly to Mars alongside NASA InSight
  • 2021 VACCO becomes a subsidiary of RBC Bearings Incorporated

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Products

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Propulsion check valves and non-propulsive relief valves providing over 40 years of flight-proven overpressure and backflow protection.

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Pneumatic, cryogenic and hazardous-fluid quick disconnects and human-rated T-0 couplings for launch vehicles, spacecraft and on-orbit refueling.

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Patented ChEMS titanium micro-manifold modules integrating valves, filters, sensors and thrusters into compact CubeSat/SmallSat propulsion feed systems.

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All-titanium or all-stainless-steel etched-disc filters providing 2 to 100 micron absolute filtration for spacecraft propellant and pressurant systems since 1961.

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Manually operated high- and low-pressure service valves for filling and draining gases and propellants on spacecraft and missiles.

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Flight-proven high- and low-pressure latch (isolation) valves used across commercial and government satellite propulsion systems since 1988.

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Cryogenic ball valves, fill & drain valves, and prevalves for launch vehicle main propulsion systems, including the SLS Core Stage 12-inch cryogenic prevalve.

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Flight-qualified subsystem integration of VACCO valves, regulators, filters and torque-motor isolation valves into xenon flow control and pressure regulation modules and panel assemblies.

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Wintec fine-mesh surface tension elements that separate free gas from liquid propellant for zero-gravity propellant management devices in satellite fuel tanks.

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Monopropellant, bipropellant and cold-gas thruster valves for attitude control, reaction control and orbital maneuvering, including the Cold Gas Triad Thruster.

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High-precision pressure regulator family flying on human-spaceflight and commercial satellite platforms, from the Space Shuttle to NASA's Mars Science Laboratory descent stage.

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Patented all-metal woven mesh filters for cryogenic, propellant and pressurant fluid systems, flying on the Lockheed Martin A2100 satellite bus.

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