JetConneX - Elite Wings

2020 CABIN CONNECTIVITY GUIDE

Jet ConneX

SATCOM KA-BAND

Service Launch

2016

Coverage

Global

Speed

15 Mbps

20 Mbps (JX-Pro)

Plan Cost

$7K- $40K

Hardware Weight

44 lbs

Inmarsat Jet ConneX offers passengers the highest speed and most extensive coverage of flight routes available to the market. It’s the first worldwide Ka-band network available to business aviation from a single operator. The Jet ConneX service delivers a reliable, uninterrupted, high-quality Wi-Fi experience wherever you fly. It provides data speeds capable of supporting video-streaming, Voice over IP (VoIP), live TV, file transfer, and VPN.

Jet ConneX is powered by Inmarsat’s Global Xpress network. Each of its four I-5 satellites operates 89 highly efficient Ka-band spot beams.

Jet ConneX is the only business aviation connectivity solution to offer Committed Information Rates (CIR)

Jet ConneX went live in late 2016, initially launched with a network of three geostationary satellites GX1-GX3 that provided global coverage. Inmarsat has since added a fourth satellite GX-4 to help reinforce demand and provide backup capacity.

A fifth satellite GX5 was launched on 26 November 2019 to deliver additional, focused capacity across Europe and the Middle East. GX5 will deliver more capacity than the entire GX1-GX4 fleet combined.

Advanced Ka-band payloads (GX6A & 6B) will also be hosted on the next generation Inmarsat-6 (I-6) L-band satellites, scheduled for launch in 2021.

Starting 2023 Inmarsat will start launching its next generation of Global Xpress satellites that should bring JetConneX offering to a new era of unprecedented capabilities. The new constellation will include industry first Highly Elliptical Orbits (HEO) satellites to provide arctic region coverage capability.