5 January 2026 – Mission Microwave Technologies, LLC, a leading provider of solid-state power amplifiers and block upconverters for satellite communications, today announced a contract award for Mission Microwave to design and deliver solid state power block upconverters (BUCs) for the Telesat Lightspeed Landing Stations. Each Telesat Lightspeed Landing Station will host multiple antennas that will be integrated with Mission Microwave’s compact 100-watt BUCs with Gallium Nitride (GaN) amplifier modules and wide band 27.5-30GHz high quality upconverters. The globally deployed Landing Stations are fully integrated with the Telesat Lightspeed satellite network and play an important role in connecting user traffic to Points-ofPresence for telecom networks, internet and cloud services, and private interconnections for customer networks. Read more