Sternula A/SAktiv

Corporate Background Sternula was registered as a company in July 2019 to build a business around maritime digital services, under the International Maritime Organization (IMO) known as “e-navigation”. Based in Denmark, a strong maritime nation with one of the world’s largest merchant fleets and huge territorial waters in a Commonwealth with the Faroe Islands and Greenland, the company taps into a growing eco system of maritime industry needs, solutions, and technology. The vision was to combine the new VHF Data Exchange System (VDES) technology and maturing “New Space” technology to build a global VDES satellite network, extending shore-based VDES networks into the oceans. We launched the STERNULA-1 satellite in early 2023, only 3 years and 6 months after start-up – a European record. The satellite was used for demonstrating VDES use cases until decommissioned at the end of 2024. The global adoption and roll-out of VDES has taken time. The company has developed into a world-leading technology and solutions provider for VDES networks and VDES-based services. In particular, we built the world’s first end-to-end solution for broadcasting navigational warnings over a shore-based VDES network, currently serving Danish waters in a pilot project from 4 coast stations. In this work, we are using VDES together with supplementary technologies in what we informally refer to as “AIS 2.0”, because VDES is formally an extension of the AIS ship tracking system. Principle Activities of the

Development in Activities During 2025, we continued the development of our solutions and market. The market depends heavily on the pace of standardization in the IMO and maritime authorities starting to implement shore-based VDES infrastructures. Our business development aims to support progress in this area. We need to assume that maritime authorities (as well as other VDES service providers) will want to do pilot projects in a “Phase 1” before going to implementation in “Phase 2” and operational in “Phase 3”. This is illustrated in Figure 1 along with the key standardization milestones. In our ongoing R&D project, MaDaMe, we have set up the world’s first end-to-end testbed with live distribution of navigational warnings over VDES. The setup is done in a collaboration with the Danish Emergency Management Agency, who is responsible for maritime safety information in Denmark. The testbed has 4 VDES coast stations and 4 vessels with the necessary VDES equipment for reception and display (see Figure 2). During 2025, we have started offering the testbed as a “Phase 1” project platform for maritime authorities who want to gain experience with VDES before going into implementation and operation. The platform has gained significant traction from customers all over the world. This will be a key element of our business in the coming years. The mentioned MaDaMe project is one of several strategic international R&D projects that we have been engaged in during the year. These are

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