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Gogo makes a strategic investment in Farcast to support new cutting-edge user terminal technology to enhance inflight connectivity for business, military, and government aviation
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Farcast, a San Francisco-based startup building advanced satellite user terminals, announces that it has received strategic equity investment from Gogo (Nasdaq: GOGO), a leading in-flight communications provider for business, military, and government aviation, to evolve a new class of aviation user terminals for Gogo customers. The investment will support the development of core technology needed for new antennas to support optimized cabin connect
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