Gogo Business Aviation has announced its global low-Earth Orbit (LEO) broadband service has gained momentum with significant programme achievements.
Sergio Aguirre, Gogo’s President and Chief Operating Officer commented on the achievements by Gogo and its strategic partners OneWeb and Hughes Network Systems: “Because we have strong partners in OneWeb and Hughes we’re ahead of schedule, and we continue to make tremendous progress on the development of the system components. Gogo’s global broadband service will deliver best-in-class global performance that is faster, smaller, more affordable, and easier to install than other global satellite solutions.”
Gogo’s LEO satellite network provider, OneWeb, completed the launch of its LEO constellation with more than 588 satellites in orbit at the end of March. Gogo expects its global broadband service to come online in the second half of 2024.
Gogo, together with its antenna provider Hughes, completed preliminary design review of Gogo’s exclusive electronically steerable antenna (ESA) assembly in February. Gogo says this brings the company one step closer to realising its vision of delivering an order-of-magnitude improvement in inflight connectivity performance for all sizes of aircraft around the globe, many of which have no viable broadband solution today.
