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Inflight connectivity provider Gogo is announcing a long-term road map for its Galileo satellite broadband service that extends the value of investing in the system into the mid-2030s.
Broomfield, Colorado-based Gogo rolled out its Galileo satellite service in 2025, adding to its terrestrial air-to-ground cellular services. Galileo accesses the Eutelsat OneWeb constellation of about 650 first-generation, primarily Ku-band satellites, which reside in low Earth orbit (LEO).
Gogo and partner Hughes Network Systems supply two fuselage-mounted, flat-panel, electronically steerable antenna terminals for Galileo: the half-duplex (HDX) for light-to-midsize jets and turboprops and the full-duplex (FDX) for super-midsize and larger business jets. A half-duplex antenna can transmit or receive data only at a given moment, not simultaneously. A full-duplex antenna can simultaneously transmit and receive data.
Gogo says it has designed an upgrade path for the HDX and FDX terminals “to preserve as much of the existing installation infrastructure as possible, including retention of the antenna mounts, fairing and wiring to build on existing supplemental type certificates (STC).” Aligning with Eutelsat’s road map for satellites, the company says operators that invest in Galileo today “are assured of a defined, predictable path to higher performance as onboard technology and satellite networks advance.”
Eutelsat’s next-generation satellite road map includes the commercial IRIS² network, which is expected to be operational in the early 2030s, Gogo notes. Eutelsat is supplying the LEO component of the multi-orbit European Union constellation: 264 dual military Ka-band/commercial Ku-band satellites and 66 military Ka-band satellites.
With future enhancements, Gogo says customers will see substantial, incremental speed increases beyond the current 60 megabits per second (Mbps) downloads supported by the HDX terminal and 195 Mbps by the FDX.
“The customer is really investing in the form factor of the product—the way it’s installed on the plane with the STC,” Gogo CEO Christopher Moore says.
“There’s no change to that going into the 2030s,” Moore adds. “With upgrades to the equipment or software, we’re taking what we have today in two-year increments and increasing the speed. Ultimately, you’re getting into really high speeds at the end in 2032, with a 300 Mbps service on the HDX and a 1.5 Gbps [gigabits per second] service on the FDX.”
Gogo also offers three-year guaranteed pricing for Galileo subscriptions. Its 25-GB monthly data plan using the HDX antenna costs $3,500 per month for three years. A 50-GB plan using the FDX antenna is price-locked at $7,000 per month for three years. Three-year unlimited plans cost $10,500 monthly for HDX and $12,500 for FDX.
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