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From Volume 37, Issue 33 of EIR Online, Published Aug. 27, 2010

Argentina To (Finally) Develop Its Own Satellite Launcher

Aug. 19 (EIRNS)ЎЄArgentina plans to develop a rocket launcher that will be able to place its domestically built small satellites into low Earth orbit, the head of the Argentine National Commission for Space Activities (CONAE) announced Aug. 15. Conrado Varotto said Argentina could launch satellites for one quarter the cost of buying foreign launch services, and that the technology would all be developed domestically.

According to CONAE, the Tronador II ("thundering") rocket will build on Argentina's current Tronador I project, which uses a liquid-fueled engine, weighs about 60 kg, and can travel on an unguided ballistic trajectory up to 20 km. Tronador II, which will be about 10 times heavier, will use multiple engines, and add navigation, guidance, and control technology, so that the rocket can be deployed to a specific point in space.

Varotto stated that satellites weighing between 250-400 kg could be launched with the new rocket, which he said could be ready for its first flight test in 2013, if the resources are provided. The small satellites would be a "dynamic cluster," he explained, each one designed for a specific mission, to test a particular technical capability. In this way, a failure in one does not jeopardize all of them, and allows for an "immediate response." Using conventional technology, he said, it can take up to six years to design, build, and launch a satellite.

This is not Argentina's first rocket project. Like Brazil, the military had developed ballistic-missile technology through the 1980s, which were dual use capabilities, also for civilian projects. The anti-technology non-proliferation mafia, allied with the economic hitmen, starting in the 1970s, conspired to destroy Ibero-America's development, and Argentina's rocket program was finally shut down in 1990. The CЁ®ndor rocket and its infrastructure were dismantled.

Tremendous capability, in rocketry, space hardware development, and space science still reside in Argentina. A reorganization of the world's financial system could quickly bring Ibero-America in to the space age, on which path it started decades ago.

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