CEATSA
Native name | Centro de Ensayos de Alta Tecnología Sociedad Anónima |
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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 |
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Owners | ARSAT (80%) and INVAP (20%) |
Website |
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Footnotes / references [1][2][3] |
CEATSA (Spanish: Centro de Ensayos de Alta Tecnología Sociedad Anónima) is an Argentine environmental testing company jointly owned by ARSAT (80%) and INVAP (20%).[1][3] 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
References
- 1 2 "Sobre CEATSA" [About CEATSA] (in Spanish). CEATSA. Retrieved 2015-09-04.
- 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.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "Ensayos" [Testing] (in Spanish). ARSAT. Retrieved 2015-09-04.
- ↑ "Cámara Termo Vacío" (in Spanish). CEATSA. Retrieved 2015-09-04.
- ↑ "Sistema de ensayos de vibración" (in Spanish). CEATSA. Retrieved 2015-09-04.
- ↑ "Sistema de ensayo acústico" (in Spanish). CEATSA. Retrieved 2015-09-04.
- ↑ "Sistema de medición de propiedades de masa" (in Spanish). CEATSA. Retrieved 2015-09-04.
- 1 2 "Medición de Antena" (in Spanish). CEATSA. Retrieved 2015-09-04.