Headquarters Bariloche | Website www.ceatsa.com.ar Founded 2010 Type S.A. | |
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Native name Centro de Ensayos de Alta Tecnología Sociedad Anónima Industry Environmental testingSatellite testingAutomobile testing Key people Carlos Del Valle Campos (President)Federico Hernáez (Vice-President)Vicente Campenni (Director)Marcelo Famá (General Manager) | ||
CEATSA (Spanish: Centro de Ensayos de Alta Tecnología Sociedad Anónima) is an Argentine environmental testing company jointly owned by ARSAT (80%) and INVAP (20%). 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. Its creation enabled the country to cover the whole life cycle of satellite design and operation.
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.
The actual investment on the company was of approximately 40 Million US dollars.