ARSAT-1: Argentina launches first telecom satellite

Text: AFP

Argentina successfully launched a geostationary communications satellite that was built at home with local technology, a first for Latin America.

The ARSAT-1, the product of seven years of work by a team of 400 specialists, launched from French Guiana at 6:00 pm (2100 GMT).

In pic: Ariane 5 rocket, carrying two telecom satellites, lifting off from the launch pad at the ESA base in Kourou, French Guiana.