Líder Aviação Installs First Gogo Galileo Satcom in Brazil

Líder Aviação recently performed its first installation of a Gogo low-earth-orbit Galileo satcom system on a business aircraft. It installed the system on a Bombardier Global 6000. This is the aircraft’s second satcom installed by the Brazilian company; the first is a Gogo Plane Simple Ku-band geostationary orbit (GEO) system, and now the Global 6000 has multi-orbit connectivity and redundancy in case either system is unavailable.

The Plane Simple system runs on SES FlexExec’s GEO satellite network and was installed by Lider on this airplane in 2024. The Galileo system features Gogo’s HDX electronically steered antenna, which connects to Eutelsat’s OneWeb LEO network. System speed is up to 60 Mbps.

“The customer specifically sought to incorporate a LEO solution into the aircraft, recognizing its cost advantages, while still delivering exceptional performance,” according to Ewerton Libanio, managing director of Gogo Brazil. “Traveling both within Brazil but also internationally, the aircraft owner wanted to keep their Gogo Plane Simple system to ensure multi-orbit redundancy. This enables broader global coverage—including remote and polar regions—while optimizing performance through lower latency, higher throughput, and intelligent traffic routing.”