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 actual investment on the company was of approximately 40 Million US dollars.