CEATSA

CEATSA
Native name
 Centro de Ensayos de Alta Tecnología Sociedad Anónima
Sociedad Anónima
Industry
Founded September 2010 in Bariloche, Argentina
Founder INVAP and ARSAT
Headquarters Av. Cmte. Luis Piedrabuena 4950, San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina
Area served
 South America
Key people
  • Carlos Del Valle Campos (President)
  • Federico Hernáez (Vice-President)
  • Vicente Campenni (Director)
  • Marcelo Famá (General Manager)
Owners ARSAT (80%) and INVAP (20%)
Website www.ceatsa.com.ar
Footnotes / references
[1][2][3]

CEATSA (Spanish: Centro de Ensayos de Alta Tecnología Sociedad Anónima), is an Argentine high technology testing company providing environmental testing services to the satellite, aeronautics, electronics, automotive, defense, and energy industries. It is jointly owned by the Argentine government owned telecommunications company ARSAT (80%) and public company INVAP (20%).[1][3]

History

It was created in September 2010, started its operations in December 2012 and the environmental testing facilities were officially inaugurated in September 2013, when ARSAT-1 did its whole testing cycle.[4] Its creation enabled the country to cover the whole life cycle of satellite design and operation.[3]

The creation of CEATSA enabled Argentina to cover the whole cycle of satellite design and manufacturing. Previously, national satellites like SAC-D had to be tested on the Brazilian INPE. This was expensive since the move of personnel and ground support equipment associated with a single satellite was significant. Since the Brazilian testing facilities were too small for the size of the ARSAT satellites, it simply made economic sense to actually build the facilities.[5]

The actual investment on the company was of approximately 40 Million US dollars.[3]

Testing Facilities

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Sobre CEATSA" [About CEATSA] (in Spanish). CEATSA. Retrieved 2015-09-04.
  2. ↑ "Directorio" [Board] (in Spanish). CEATSA. Retrieved 2015-09-04.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Drewes, Lorena (September 2014). El Sector Espacial Argentino [The Argentina Space Sector] (PDF) (in Spanish). ARSAT. p. 32. ISBN 978-987-45569-0-5. Retrieved 2015-08-25.
  4. ↑ "Cristina: "Algunos quieren volver a la Argentina del endeudamiento"" [President Cristina: "Some want to see Argentina indebted again"] (in Spanish). Telam. 2013-09-27. Retrieved 2015-09-01.
  5. ↑ "Ensayos" [Testing] (in Spanish). ARSAT. Retrieved 2015-09-04.
  6. ↑ "Cámara Termo Vacío" (in Spanish). CEATSA. Retrieved 2015-09-04.
  7. ↑ "Sistema de ensayos de vibración" (in Spanish). CEATSA. Retrieved 2015-09-04.
  8. ↑ "Sistema de ensayo acústico" (in Spanish). CEATSA. Retrieved 2015-09-04.
  9. ↑ "Sistema de medición de propiedades de masa" (in Spanish). CEATSA. Retrieved 2015-09-04.
  10. 1 2 "Medición de Antena" (in Spanish). CEATSA. Retrieved 2015-09-04.


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