Technology for export

Dated June 06 and November 21, 2000, two outstanding news were spread, in turns, in many Argentine media and show news. In between yellow news, strikes, corruption denounces and economical cataclysms, the press declared that an Argentinean high tech company was involved in two events of international consequences. In one hand, the company sign a U$S 170 million contract for the construction of a R and D nuclear reactor in Australia, defeating first-world technological monsters. On the other hand, the company was responsible for the design and construction of the first Argentinean observational satellite for territory observing tasks that the NASA had just launched to the space. A complete rarity in these days. (author)