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.
[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.