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Future Look: Mission Microwave
Steve Richeson, Vice President

 

Mission Microwave customers can look forward to the company’s continued growth and support in 2023.

The company continues to expand and grow its team while customers provide additional requirements for solid state amplifiers in maritime, tactical, aviation and multi-orbit terminals.

The company’s priorities of people, products, process and profitability enables it to stay focused on customer success in a very dynamic environment. Mission expects 2023 to be particularly strong for the company’s newest high power products.

Mission’s customers continue to provide a strong market for the company’s signature Stinger, Javelin and Titan BUCs that have become the standard for tactical terminals and high performance transportable and Communication-On-The-Move (COTM) applications.


Mission Microwave’s Ka-Band 400 watt MOAB SSPA
These new products include BUCs and SSPAs of up to 800 watts in X-band and 400 watts in Ka-band.

Mission Microwave products fill a currently under-served gap in the market for these complex and high value amplifiers.

The 400 watt Ka-band product (photo, to the right) in particular has been welcomed by the industry as a replacement for legacy 500 wat
TWT amplifiers.

The lower total cost of ownership, increase reliability and proven performance of these products in multi-carrier applications has won strong support from the company’s tactical and commercial customer base.


Mission Microwave’s Ku-Band 55 watt Stinger BUC
During the 2023 calendar year Mission microwave customers can expect to see:

• Increased performance from the continuing evolution of the product lines.
• New higher power SSPAs, BUCs and transceivers in support of the IFC, mobility, and gateway markets for Non-GEO constellations
• Continued deployment of high power Ka-band amplifiers as TWT amplifiers are phased out in favor of the more reliable Solid State products
• Growing success of our customer base as they take advantage of Mission Microwave products leadership in performance and reliability.

Mission’s customers continue to provide a strong market for the company’s signature Stinger, Javelin and Titan BUCs that have become the standard for tactical terminals and high performance transportable and Communication-On-The-Move (COTM) applications.

2023 starts with a solid foundation as the company’s customers look forward to growing demand for “Made For A Mission” Ka-band terminals as new MEO and GEO constellations are launched and deployed.

Having overcome the challenges of 2022, Mission Microwave expects 2023 to be another in a long string of growth years as the company’s customers build on their successes in the fastest growing segments of the SATCOM market

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