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ARSAT-1 is Argentina's first designed and developed geostationary satellite
The ARSAT-1 is Argentina first domestically designed and developed geostationary communications satellite, and its construction and successful launching, on Thursday, was defined by the government as “historic.” Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesArsesat! Great name!
Oct 17th, 2014 - 08:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0A comment I read on a local site here summed it up.
Oct 17th, 2014 - 09:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0Great!, We have the satellite in orbit, now all we need are brakes for our trains!
It's like the delinquent white trash that lives in a rat infested repossessed trailer house, but he has a shinny new car that he can't afford and is grinning like a possum eating shit.
Oct 17th, 2014 - 10:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0How long before it hits something? And what argie 'claims' will it give rise to? At least if it's geostationary, it should be sitting over argieland. Three tons, eh? What can that destroy when it falls out of the sky?
Oct 17th, 2014 - 10:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0@4 Well it was launched by Arianespace (French) and the leading equipment suppliers for it were Thales Alenia Space(French-Italian) and Airbus Defence and Space (multinational) so how much is actually Argentinian is anyone's guess.
Oct 17th, 2014 - 10:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0How do the Argentines feel that the Ariane rocket was developed from the British Blue Streak launcher?
Oct 17th, 2014 - 10:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0The Argies have their own rocket. Instead of Blue Steak, its called brown stain :-)
Oct 17th, 2014 - 10:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0Now to maintain this satellite....not cheap by any stretch.
Oct 17th, 2014 - 11:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0For a country that is broke , how can they afford all this,
Oct 17th, 2014 - 01:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0by the way, how many satellites do the British have up there .
@6
Oct 17th, 2014 - 02:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The same way that the Blue Streak was developed directly from know-how of the V2 rocket, down to the liquid propellant.
It's no coincidence the US, UK, and USSR started toying with rockets at virtually the exact same time. That three countries separated by oceans would display such synchronicity of development in the exact same field is highly improbable. Of course the answer is they copied the Nazis 99% of the work.
@5
Certainly more than anything Mexico has ever been able to scrap together.
Leave the RG's alone, their last rocket launch reached an altitude of 10cm's!
Oct 17th, 2014 - 02:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I guess this means that every other satellite is now a squatter and Argentina will now be claiming sovereignty of space.
Oct 17th, 2014 - 02:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Didn't you hear, they have Satellit Sovereignty.
Oct 17th, 2014 - 02:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Just wait until they get to the next C24.
Something to be proud of.
Oct 17th, 2014 - 03:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They have entered the Space Age - not all countries have done that.
However, one asks , “ at what cost, monetarily, and in lieu of what Social Programs and Public Works?”
Before the Trolls jump on me, every country that ever launched satellites or put a man in orbit, has had that criticism levelled at them, the U.S., UK, India, USSR, China...
A satellite build and launch is expensive, let alone a Space Program.
To Argentina's credit - they havent really gone to the expense of a “Space Program”, regardless of what CFK calls it, with multiple launches and their own launch vehicles and launch facilities.
They have purchased prestige and a toehold on outer space, with one expensive satellite and rented launch technology.
@14
Oct 17th, 2014 - 03:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Then you dare insult others for their lack of education?
Your education is an absolute benighted embarrassement.
“entered the space age?”. Argentina has built at least a dozen satellites since the 1980s!!
What kind of education is there in the north, my gosh what utter ignorance of the world around them!!
Origami doesn't count tranny boi tobi.....give me your address and I will ship you your estrogen. I am sure your breasts are shrinking. Poppa got you tongue lately?>
Oct 17th, 2014 - 04:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@15
Oct 17th, 2014 - 05:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“entered the space age?”. Argentina has built at least a dozen satellites since the 1980s!! ”
Funny, that's not the impression the headline gives. Get back to us when you build and launch the entire systyem... ;)
Notrils is actually correct on this. This is Argentinas first static satellite, they have build other orbiting satellites over the years in conjunction with NASA and Arg businesses and Uni's. There first from the shuttle in 1998.
Oct 17th, 2014 - 05:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But that does beg the question, why is Ms President making such a show, deflection, deflection, deflection?
Take a metal dustbin, switch a radio on, put it inside and weld the lid on, you have a satellite.
Oct 17th, 2014 - 05:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Get someone to stick it on top of a rocket and put it into space for you.
Otherwise, it's still a noisy dustbin!
They don't have a space programme, they have just learned how to build advanced dustbins!
So basically Argentina has in reality attached a bit of electrical wiring to the bottom of a firework rocket and sent it up into lower space,
Oct 17th, 2014 - 06:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0why would we condemn excellent work,
we are all waiting to see how they are going to get CFK up their to make her maiden space speech....lol
Uhm! Satellite of cardboard. Ja !. Soon with the rocket of cardboard Tronador and the satellite of cardboard carton we can observe and break his ass to the okupas. Closer!
Oct 17th, 2014 - 06:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sS0YETjUnbI/UvmuR-KD8lI/AAAAAAAAZj4/-16hRawjju4/s1600/Ensayos_de_vibraci%C3%B3n_sobre_el_modelo_de_vuelo_del_sat%C3%A9lite_ARSAT-1.jpg
you may be suffering space sickness..lol
Oct 17th, 2014 - 06:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I understand that the satellite will emit a bleep...bleep...bleep signal that can be picked up on Argentinean radios and three horizontal lines ----- -------- -------- that can be seen across colour TV screens.
Oct 17th, 2014 - 07:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Amazing.
I thought it was three dots, dashes and three more dots · · · – – – · · ·
Oct 17th, 2014 - 07:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@24 chuckle chuckle
Oct 17th, 2014 - 07:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Marvelous technical achievement. Following it's arrival in geostationary sync, and valve warmup - a great success is assured. Nicely designed Sat.
Oct 17th, 2014 - 09:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://clip2net.com/s/j6OU1r
10 SNOTTY Nostrils
Oct 17th, 2014 - 11:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“The same way that the Blue Streak was developed directly from know-how of the V2 rocket, down to the liquid propellant. ”
No Snotty, no.
The first liquid fueled rocket design was Goddard's in the US, in 1926.
He developed it further for the US Government, during WW II.
Please don't try to taint US/UK achievements with cheap throwaway references to Nazi's.
http://www.nasa.gov/missions/research/f_goddard.html
was this sent up cristinarse
Oct 18th, 2014 - 12:22 am - Link - Report abuse 015 Snotty
Oct 18th, 2014 - 01:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0“ Argentina has built at least a dozen satellites since the 1980s!! ”
then, why is CFK making a big song & dance about this one??
Anything else I said @14 untrue???
Nope.
BTW,
Nobody outside of Argentina studies Argentina - it's not deemed relevant in the modern world.
@27
Oct 18th, 2014 - 04:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0That is an absolute whitewash of history. EVERYONE knows the US had absolutely NO rocketry of any relevance prior to Von Braun. In fact, US rocket “launches” were a complete and humiliating embarrassment before his intervention.
The US and UK did absolutely nothing and that is the fact. They just stole the technology. And it is telling that basically since that time the US and UK have made absolutely NO advances in the field.
...and yet, they put a man on the moon and flew a fleet of Space Shuttles.
Oct 18th, 2014 - 05:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina?
45 years after the U.S. sent men from Florida to the Moon and back, Argentina do not have their own rockets to launch a satellite.
Do you see the comparison, Snotty?
July 1962 TELSTAR 1.
Oct 18th, 2014 - 06:14 am - Link - Report abuse 052 years later ARSAT 1.
The boys a fool, but we knew that anyway.
I'm puzzled. Why didn't the call the satellite General Belgrano? That would have gone d o w n a treat.
Oct 18th, 2014 - 10:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0@21
Oct 18th, 2014 - 11:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0Yes, José, we're all trembling before the mighty Argentine Death Star.
#30
Oct 18th, 2014 - 11:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0Hey junior, we liberated a continent in ww11 and offered citizenships to Von Braun as well as to some of Europe's brightest minds. They accepted and became Americans. Call it stealing, but we offered them a much better life than they had under Hitler and his henchmen. They cam VOLUNTARILY. If you call it stealing, at least we stole FOR our country not FROM our country as is the norm here.
@30, @35
Oct 18th, 2014 - 02:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Indeed hurricane is right, Tobes. If you're going to go for Eichmann and Mengele instead of von Braun, you're going to have to accept that your space programme might fall a little behind.
@36
Oct 18th, 2014 - 02:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If your priorities are genocide and ethnic cleansing, you are going to try to get experts in that realm of endeavor. Argentina's actions made it quite clear what they felt was important.
@5. I see. French and Italian then. White flags, crashed airliners, 'vehicles' with 1 forward gear and 5 reverse. Can you have a retrograde orbit for a geostationary satellite. What are the rules? If it moves, can we shoot it down?
Oct 18th, 2014 - 03:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@10. You must stop trying to bring your nazi orientation into everything. Ever heard of the Congreve rocket? British rocketry was available during the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. In 1814, the rocket vessel HMS Erebus was the source of the “rockets' red glare” in The Star Spangled Banner.
@15. Did they launch any? Research only mentions 4 argie satellites. And 2 of those failed.
@21. Tronador doesn't even have a guidance system! Only “demonstrators” have been launched. “Look, we can fire something up into the sky”.
@30. Nostrum of Nowhere. Ever heard of Cape Canaveral or Woomera. Strange how the US were able to put so many people into orbit, develop the Space Shuttle, send men to the Moon. Meanwhile, the UK continued development. And now a British private company plans to send 'tourists' into space by 2015! Launched a monkey yet, or are you waiting for CFK to get better? Send Timerman. Nobody will care if the aliens get him. Why not go yourself? ALIEN ALERT!!! A murdering, genocidal race of aliens is trying to invade Earth. They conduct experiments on people. They have depraved sexual practices. They kill without thought. Their 'cattle' don't really taste like 'beef'. More like pork. 'People' disappear. Annihilate them!
In case any of you missed the launch, here's a re-play...
Oct 18th, 2014 - 05:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qzOzjRJpaU
Poor CFK,
Oct 18th, 2014 - 06:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Another rocket gone up in smoke,
still,
with a bit of luck from there new friends perhaps Argentina will get another chance to launch their very own rocket in 100 years or so...lol
Yesterday, LAS ALAS DE MI PATRIA flew low, very low, flush the waves and the snowy steppe in search of LOST SOVEREIGNTY.
Oct 18th, 2014 - 10:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Today, LAS ALAS DE MI PATRIA, FLY HIGH, VERY HIGH, TO36000 km. And observed them, permanently, our beautiful and beloved. With no one above us.
Those little 16.4 meters of Argentine design and engineering, give us the recovery of our sovereignty, not the total, lack the most desired and loved.
Soon, the ARSAT 2 met his brother, and the two brothers will observe our two little sisters lost in time and fog.
WTF are you on about??
Oct 19th, 2014 - 06:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Little sister” - what???
@42
Oct 19th, 2014 - 05:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It's Malvinista Mysticism. The little sisters are the Falklands, cruelly torn from the breast of the Motherland by the dastardly Brits, etc, etc, etc. One of the brothers in this case seems to be the satellite. Not sure who the other one is. The other cheek of the ARSAT, maybe? In any event, this kind of stuff isn't directed at the reality- based community, so it can be quite hard to get your head round if you're a member of that.
give us the recovery of our sovereignty,
Oct 19th, 2014 - 06:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0we had no idea that Argentina owned and lost the universe,
and you now want your sovereignty back,
seems fair enough to me,
but please tell us mere immortals,
WHO stole this sovereignty from you,
Who were these aliens, do you know there nationality,
when did they steal it, how many space ships did they have,
and how many white coats do you want this year,
we hear the climate in the asylum is interesting...lolol
I would just like to point out that this Argentine ARSAT thingymajig was launched from French Guiana on the northern tip of the South American continent.
Oct 20th, 2014 - 10:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0French Guiana, or Guyane, is an Overseas Department of France. It is part of the EU. It even has the Euro as its currency. GDP per capita is close to US$20,000. They speak French too.
Why isn't Argentina screaming about this blatant colonialist evil?
I think we should be told.
Yep..
Oct 20th, 2014 - 06:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“FATMAX-1 weighs three tons and is designed to have a useful life in orbit of about 15 years. ”
Oct 20th, 2014 - 07:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0:0)
Shame they didn't blast that useless cokehead peado into Space. Along with Flor-polish and the rest of them.
@ 38 Conqueror
Oct 21st, 2014 - 02:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You are an absolute douche, at a very Cristina Kirchner´s level (she and you would hang out quite well).
It´s a satellite built and designed by an Argentinian crew. I´m proud that after so many years of looting and spoiling, we still have the human resources to do that. If building a satellite was so easy as some of you smartasses here claim, everybody would have one of its own, and that´s not the case.
NOBODY can seriously claim this is a space-age kick off. NOBODY can seriously compare this episode to the man on the moon. Only trolls and psychos. And I´m not sure where you fall into.
This is a significant step, and I look forward for more cases, as well as for Argentina to develop its own indigenous rocket. But, as pointed, it does not change our lives, it does not stop corruption, it does not stop inflation, it does not stop insecurity. Spending in science is great, making an expensive show out of it (as it was done here) is not.
To sum up, and by answering one of your cheap shots here, in the event of it going down, I hope it´s right over your head.
Regards.
$270million dollars of seizable assets just sitting there. No doubt a certain NY judge is asking NSA for the systems password right... about.... now.
Oct 21st, 2014 - 06:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@49
Oct 21st, 2014 - 09:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0:-))))))
very good!
@33 Brit Bob “I´m puzzled. Why didn´t they call the satellite General Belgrano?”
Oct 22nd, 2014 - 05:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0Obviously, because that name lacks the elegance of Sheffield, Ardent or even Atlantic Conveyor. But this fine choices were discarded, as 36.500 Km still remain a long distance from the South Atlantic.
@ 51
Oct 22nd, 2014 - 10:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0Be thankful they didn´t call it Nestor Kirchner or Gaucho Rivero ... ;)
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