Close to the people
who rely on it.

Stellar is founded as a systems integrator for satellite communications. Bringing individual technologies together into working systems lays the foundation for our future role in building and operating ground infrastructure.

Our first 150 Mbit/s transatlantic fibre connection links us to New York and Los Angeles. Combining satellite communications with terrestrial networks becomes a defining part of how we connect our customers.

We build our 30,000 m² teleport near Cologne and launch our first digital television platform on HotBird. With infrastructure of our own, we take on responsibility for the day-to-day delivery of satellite services.

Stellar receives the World Teleport Association’s Award for Excellence. The award recognises our growing contribution to global communications, bringing people around the world together through our infrastructure.

We expand our IP services across the Middle East and Africa. Our combined satellite and fibre infrastructure supports a growing international business, including connectivity in regions with limited terrestrial access.

We launch one of Europe’s first commercial broadcasting services using MPEG-4 and DVB-S2. Adopting these technologies early allows us to use satellite capacity more efficiently and expand our digital television offering.

We broaden our range of high-bandwidth platforms using adaptive modulation. This gives us greater flexibility in matching transmission performance to changing link conditions and customer requirements.

A new teleport in Cyprus extends our infrastructure eastward, with a fibre connection to Ramstein Air Base in Germany using our own equipment. Operating across two locations broadens our coverage and our ability to connect satellite services with terrestrial networks.

Our global coverage makes Stellar a major infrastructure partner for Panasonic Avionics’ inflight connectivity services. Supporting communications for aircraft brings our network into an application where connections must be maintained across countries and continents.

We expand our international optical fibre network into a 10 Gbit/s ring. The ring structure adds alternative transmission paths, strengthening the terrestrial backbone behind our satellite services.

In our twentieth year, we establish our third teleport in Fiji and expand our fibre network into the Pacific. Launching a direct-to-home television service for public broadcaster Walesi ahead of schedule puts this new infrastructure to work for audiences across Fiji.

Stellar co-founds mtex, extending our involvement into antenna technology development. Our experience of operating ground infrastructure gains a direct connection to the engineering of the systems it depends on.

We upgrade our teleport’s power and cooling systems, strengthening the resilience of our ground infrastructure. This investment supports the continuous availability our customers depend on to keep critical data moving and their operations running.

We expand and operate VSAT services for the Government of Fiji. Building on our local teleport, we extend our role from television distribution into the country’s wider communications infrastructure.

Stellar is selected to host and operate the main satellite control station for Germany’s Heinrich Hertz mission. The appointment extends our ground operations into the infrastructure used to control a national satellite mission.

We begin preparing our site for the Heinrich Hertz satellite control station. The appointment now becomes a construction and integration task, bringing mission-specific requirements into our teleport infrastructure.

We begin delivering services for the Heinrich Hertz programme. The work moves from site preparation into service provision, building on the infrastructure established for the mission.

For the DSA-2000 project, we rethink antenna power supply to make reliable operation possible in remote locations and under extreme environmental conditions. It reflects how we approach engineering challenges: looking beyond established solutions and getting hands-on to build what is needed.

With the first Performance antenna installed at our teleport, we review both the 5 m Performance and the 2.4 m Performance-M, confirming their excellent performance. Both live up to their name, marking the next step in bringing our antenna development work into the operating environment.