Inauguration ceremony for the STELLA project

Beneath a canopy of European flags, an inauguration ceremony was held at CERN on 6 March for the STELLA project. STELLA will test high speed, large volume data transmission between high energy physics Laboratories using the OTS satellite of the European Space Agency (ESA). The project is supported by the European Economic Communities (EEC) and European PTTs. Participants later visited some of the CERN facilities and saw a demonstration of the satellite link to the Rutherford Laboratory.