CEATSA

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]

CEATSA

SAOCOM 1A inside the facilities of CEATSA.
Native name	Centro de Ensayos de Alta Tecnología Sociedad Anónima
Company type	Sociedad Anónima
Industry	Environmental testing Satellite testing Automobile testing
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]

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

• Environmental testing chamber^[6]
• Shaker (vibration testing)^[7]
• Reverberant Test Chamber (acoustic environment testing)^[8]
• Mass properties testing equipment^[9]
• Near Field Horizontal Scanner^[10]
• Anechoic Chambers^[10]

See also

• INVAP
• ARSAT
• ARSAT-1
• ARSAT-2
• ARSAT-3

References

1. "Sobre CEATSA" [About CEATSA] (in Spanish). CEATSA. Retrieved 2015-09-04.
2. "Directorio" [Board] (in Spanish). CEATSA. Retrieved 2015-09-04.
3. Drewes, Lorena (September 2014). El Sector Espacial Argentino [The Argentina Space Sector] (PDF) (in Spanish). ARSAT. p. 32. ISBN 978-987-45569-0-5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-02-11. 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. Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2015-09-04.
7. "Sistema de ensayos de vibración" (in Spanish). CEATSA. Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2015-09-04.
8. "Sistema de ensayo acústico" (in Spanish). CEATSA. Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2015-09-04.
9. "Sistema de medición de propiedades de masa" (in Spanish). CEATSA. Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2015-09-04.
10. "Medición de Antena" (in Spanish). CEATSA. Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2015-09-04.

External links

• CEATSA Official Page