MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Argentina launches the three-ton ARSAT-2 telecommunications satellite
Argentina on Wednesday launched the ARSAT-2 spacecraft from a site in French Guyana, with the goal of providing telecommunication services across much of the Western hemisphere. ARSAT (Argentine Satellite Solutions), a state-owned company created in 2006, monitored the launch and operation of ARSAT-2 from the Benavídez Ground Station in northern Buenos Aires province. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesA 3 ton arse launched into space! Oh how argentine.
Oct 01st, 2015 - 09:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0Congratulations Argentina!
Oct 01st, 2015 - 11:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0#2
Oct 01st, 2015 - 12:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Who LAUNCHED the satellite ?
On an Ariane rocket! European and partly British. Say “Thank You”, then!
Oct 01st, 2015 - 12:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Launched from French soil. Blast those implanted foreigners!
Oct 01st, 2015 - 01:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0arf!
Ha ha, poor MercoPress: ”...will have coverage over much of the Americas, from the Falklands Islands (Islas Malvinas he meant) to as far north as the United States.”
Oct 01st, 2015 - 03:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It makes the difference between the Americas and Islas Malvinas Argentinas, as if they were not americans.
Vivan las Islas Malvinas Argentinas americans.
French Guiana (pronounced /ɡiːˈɑːnə/ or /ɡiːˈænə/, French: Guyane française; French pronunciation: [ɡɥijan fʁɑ̃sɛz]), officially called Guiana (French: Guyane), is an overseas department and region of France, on the north Atlantic coast of South America.
Oct 01st, 2015 - 04:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So, american or French?
haha!
@1 Papamoscas:
Oct 01st, 2015 - 04:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If necessary , we´ll accept that yours is exquisitely perfumed.
French Guyana, surely not a colony of France in South America, the shame of it.
Oct 01st, 2015 - 04:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0An ARZ satellite? Bahahahaha - its almost stone age.
Oct 01st, 2015 - 05:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Britains new 3 Inmarsat Global Express satellites cover the WHOLE world. They offer high speed broadband all over the world. Ships aircraft, deserts frozen wastes and they have steerable antenae to concentrate services on high demand areas. Even remote third world places like Argentina can benefit.
A satellite that covers the whole world?
Oct 01st, 2015 - 05:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Damn... Is that ilsen inventing again?
bed-wetter Stevie, do you want a biscuit little doggy?
Oct 01st, 2015 - 05:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Stevie gives a little “woof” at the front door, then scuttles back to his basket under the stairs...
Oct 01st, 2015 - 06:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It's true. Between The Voice's stunning knowledge on physics and ilsen's tirelessly stretching his inventing abilities to the limit, the two of them invented a satellite that covers the entire planet.
Oct 01st, 2015 - 07:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It's called (...let me scroll up...)
Yes! 3 Inmarsat Global Express.
Finds water on Mars, but not in Africa....
14 Stevie
Oct 01st, 2015 - 09:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0jealous jealous jealous...
....can't acknowledge an achievement:-)
And some achievement!!
Oct 01st, 2015 - 11:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I guess it must work on the reflectivity of vacuum... Splendid work, ilsen!
@14 Stevie
Oct 01st, 2015 - 11:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Finds water on Mars, but not in Africa....”
Stevie, with such concern, we still don't see you, or your brethren finding water for the Africans.
Instead, you give us Venzla, the product of Chavism.
Ideology before people, right Stevie??
*smirk*
Very strange, since Brasileiro has claimed in the past that Argentina is not in the west...
Oct 01st, 2015 - 11:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Nice of France to let them launch it from EU territory though.
I think this thread settles the “debate” some still seemed to had about weather EUians and Anglos are magnanimous people.
Oct 01st, 2015 - 11:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As I have always said, they are small, jaundiced, petty, wrempcreddy Troglodytes. :)
Hahahaha Troy
Oct 01st, 2015 - 11:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Finally something you actually processed before typing!!
I an only agree, that one is on me :)
yup! he wants a biscuit. Sadly, he can't afford the price....
Oct 02nd, 2015 - 12:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0Not knowing what to say about an undeniable accomplishment, the naysayers insist in filling space with incoherent ramblings.
Oct 02nd, 2015 - 12:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0Come on. Be honest and acknowledge the reality--your postings only show total disconcert. Wasn't the Argentina opposition claiming the country was near the cliff?
Instead, Argentina has joined the club formed by ”United States, China, Russia, Japan, Israel, India and the European Union (that) have built and managed geostationary satellite programs autonomously.”
Here's to you.
22 Enrique
Oct 02nd, 2015 - 06:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0You are justifiably proud, but “autonomously”, ... no.
Argentina builds the communication relay satellites, but rely on other peoples Space programs, and Launch Vehicle technology, to put them into orbit.
Tell me of one (1) spaceprogram that only included people from any single nation...
Oct 02nd, 2015 - 11:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0Oh!...
Oct 02nd, 2015 - 11:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0How can someone be so “Pelotudo????” a sat that covers the hole world???... ha ha
1st, imarsats are USA made sat no British and made by Boeing in California...
2nd, the sat app's. service delivery platform, b-band system, the AN and inf. management is provided by Cisco
3er, Luncher is a Proton (russian made) and launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, no trace of any Brit tech yet????
Inmarsat is planning to launch a new sat with the tech decrived above build by Boeing to be able to use KA-band thing that Argentina have archived long time ago and gives the ability to handle by sat R-content for HDTV, mobile applications, IBB, etc.
But the interesting thing here despite the laughing jokes from our brits friends about sats that cover the whole world, etc, is that Argentina had developed its one Indigenous technology to build complex sats for any kind of app.
Sophisticated modules like the ACE (Attitude Control Electronics), TCE (Thruster Control Electronics), GCSS (ground control station software), SCTSS (satellite control and telemetry system software), etc was built entirely by local engineers in Argentina from scratch.
Also ARG have developed its own HEEPOMSK (higher efficiency electric propulsion for orbital maneuvering and station keeping) like the Boeing 702SP platform that reduces weight.
What all that means?
Argentina has become the 2nd single country after USA in the west to be able build complex sats and to be able to deliver content in the whole continent and directly to USA or any country.
An strategic economic asset for Argentina and its country partners as she is the bigger producer of broadcasting and internet content in Spanish language in the world.
Its not cool?
Meanwhile in a country called Ukistand are trying to tune any radio station with their old radio spica Argentine made in 1960. ha ha
Oh! wait a minute i can hear Billy Idol singing “Eyes without face”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKmldYSDJaM
@24 and @25 “Stevie”/“Dunny”
Oct 02nd, 2015 - 02:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and yet, the article and Enrique claim Argentina built and operate s viable Space Program 'all by themselves!!!'
@22 Enrique
”United States, China, Russia, Japan, Israel, India and the European Union (that) have built and managed geostationary satellite programs autonomously.”
United States, China, Russia, Japan, Israel, India and the European Union ??????????????????????
Oct 02nd, 2015 - 07:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0in Europe, we no exist,
perhaps when we come out, and have our own rocket launching site to launch our own ,
we will be mentioned,
just a space full thought.
#25
Oct 02nd, 2015 - 09:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0O how we have missed your incisive wit and technical expertise !!!!!!!
ARSAT I and ARSAT II haven't happened magically. They are a result of the government's determination to put resources into developing science and technology, which among other things allowed hundreds of Argentine scientists to come back to work in their home country.
Oct 03rd, 2015 - 01:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0Contrast this to the scorched land policies of governments prior to that of Néstor Kirchner, particularly that of Carlos Menem and his economy minister Domingo Cavallo, who famously said scientists complaining about lack of support should just go “wash the dishes.”
#19
Oct 04th, 2015 - 12:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Wrempcreddy ? Never heard of it so I put a query in Google.
ww.google.co.uk/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=bRURVtyqGbDj8wfyl66oDQ&gws_rd=ssl#q=wrempcreddy
Guess what, the only reference that came up was your post at #19 above..
Wrempcreddy is your satellite. You know, the one that covers the entire planet.
Oct 04th, 2015 - 02:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Wrempcreddy indeed....
LA PATRIA EMPODERADA.
Oct 04th, 2015 - 03:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0THE EMPOWERED NATION.
If somebody had told me 12 years ago that workers were going to get very important achievements, or if i had been told that Argentina was going to start a huge and ambitious reindustrialization process, which will take more decades, or if i had been told that the country was going to be much more autonomous, without the the i.m. f.'s interventions, i would have recommended that person to see a group of psychiatrists.
After almost three decades of very bad policies, since 1976 untill 2002, neoliberalism destroyed our national industries, and became the country into one more U. S. A.'s backyard.
Before the last dictatorhsip, despite all the problems that the nation had, there had always been a too low unemployment rate, however in the Argentina of post menemism of 2000, one of the few opportunities that we had to progress, was to make very long queueses in the embasies of Spain or Italy, in order to get a european passport, with the purpose of immigrating mostly to Spain.
The Argentina of post kirchnerism will be a nation with many pendent debts in social terms, like unequality, poverty, unemployment, insecurity, etc, but it will be also a nation where workers could get achievements that were unthinkable 12 years ago, in fact, it was recognized even by conservative politicians, (Macri, Massa, etc) who have never cared about workers and poor people, and who had to admit publicly that in case that they win the elections, they will keep them.
It's more than obvious that they don't believe in it, but the fact that they make campaign saying that they won't dismantle what workers could get in all these years of kirchnerism, shows clearly that in the new Argentina, there is not so much social consensus for the neoliberalism that those candidats represent, which is a great cultural defeat for them, in my opinion, i think it's worst than loosing an election.
32 Axle Aasrgh
Oct 04th, 2015 - 04:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0K's have squandered the future of generations of Argentinians by taxing and taking the investments and savings of the Middle Class workers and business people, and Nationalising foreign owned companies and your own privately run services.
There were no unemployed in Communist Eastern Europe, Russia, Cambodia, China, North Korea etc.
Of the survivors look how many have face financial collapse, war, and even widespread famine. Only North Korea remains, and it is a Workers' Paradise, is it not.
There is no such thing as a bottomless “Iron Ricebowl” as you well know, and your people will find out.
You are correct, there are worse things for Macri and pals, than losing this election - they might win it, and forever rue the day.
Perhaps she wants to use these ARSAT-2 spacecraft
Oct 04th, 2015 - 07:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0as a prelude for future conquest of space,
and this is just the start of sovereignty exploration.
just an alien thought I know....
@Troy Tempest
Oct 05th, 2015 - 03:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0You have no idea how silly you sound comparing Argentina with former communist soviet union countries by using arguments that even make US, Britain, etc looks like a communist country... haha
Lets see...
“K's have squandered the future of generations of Argentinians by taxing and taking the investments and savings of the Middle Class workers and business people”
In many countries in Europe including Britain and US in america workers are taxed also even receiving some “state benefits” like in UK.
For example UK: State Pension, Jobseekers Allowance, Carers Allowance, Employment and Support Allowance, Incapacity Benefit (after 29th weeks), Bereavement Allowance, pensions paid by the Industrial Death Benefit scheme, Widowed Parents Allowance, Widows pension, etc, etc.
Workers have to declare income a pay according with the amount earned, if you have ever paid taxes in Europe you would know that.
In Britain for example anyone earning more than £833,33 per month is due to pay income tax.
For example a worker earning 25k per year has a due amount of £3.000 to be paid what makes the 20% of her/his earnings.
In other countries that goes up to 25 to 30%.
Investment and savings are not taxed in Argentina as you say this is a lie.
For example you can be a shareholder of any company that is not trading in stock exchange and you are tax free also to have savings in a “Plazo fijo” or having state issued bonds, etc.
So keep posting crap that it is very funny...
Dany,
Oct 05th, 2015 - 04:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina “nationalized” the pension funds of workers and “redistributed the wealth” as in Communist/ Socialist countries, to those who have not paid into it.
Ask Captain Poppy what happened to his wife's pension...
And yes, I understand taxation and employee benefits and rights, as I own my own business.
Glad I'm not an employer in Argentina, or worker for that matter.
@Troy Tempest
Oct 05th, 2015 - 01:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why you only like to see one part of the picture???
First at all the pension funds were state owned base on the redistributive model like the basic scheme in Germany, then was given away to private banks by Menen and the banks charged workers with astronomical administrative fees while the workers savings lost sustancial future income and most of them will ever get a decent pension.
The fraud was carry out by law making compulsory the system and workers had no other option than to get into the scam system, by 2007 the state had to subsidise the new pensioners under that scheme because they cannot get a minimun state pension value.
The same workers and unions were asking for that and all the political spectrum agreed that was a scam especially when JP Morgan used pensioner funds to buy shares from clarin group at the scamming inflated price of $35 and next day the same shares were trading at $9. They got procecuted for that.
What kind of idiot would like to be into a system like that?
You perhaps???
“And yes, I understand taxation and employee benefits and rights, as I own my own business.
Glad I'm not an employer in Argentina, or worker for that matter.”
Very Well, so why are you so concern about things that you don't undertand???
If your wonderful system works fine for you ok, I will not tell you to change it who cares?
I don't know where you have your business sure it is not in Germany or France or Italy, etc.?
Your Opinion as a worker it is just irrelevant because you have to ask what an Argie worker thinks about other system like the Hire and fire sure they will not go to UK or US to work under that system.
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