Rendering of a Farcast user terminal. Photo: Farcast

Gogo has made a strategic equity investment in user terminal startup Farcast to fund the development of aviation user terminals for Gogo customers. 

Gogo, which provides in-flight Wi-Fi for business and government aviation, said Farcast’s flat panel antenna (FPA) technology will support Gogo’s strategy of a multi-band, multi-orbit connectivity experience. Farcast has developed technology that allows its FPA to simultaneously transmit and receive data from the same aperture. 

“We recognized Farcast’s innovative approach to resolving some of the most complex challenges we have faced regarding the development and deployment of aviation user terminals. Farcast has developed a technology that will substantially reduce key SWaP-C constraints aviation faces, including scalability, while retaining and improving performance in a small form factor design,” said Gogo CEO Chris Moore. 

This comes after last month, Telesat also invested into Farcast to fund terminals developed for the Lightspeed network. Lockheed Martin also invested in Farcast earlier this year. The company was previously known as UTVate. 

Farcast said it has completed development and pre-production phases and is now entering its production ramp in 2026. It plans for full-scale manufacturing in 2027. To date, Farcast has secured $23.6 million in funding.