USACH Team Participates in SUCHAI-4 Software Preliminary Design Review
Oct 14, 2025·
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Dr. Carlos Gonzalez-Cortes

Carlos González joined a group of DIINF students for the Software Preliminary Design Review (PDR) of the SUCHAI-4 mission, developed by the SPEL team at the University of Chile. The review served to discuss the mission’s technical challenges, propose design ideas, and organise the work and collaboration between both institutions. The post was published in Spanish and English and closed with the team’s expectation of seeing SUCHAI-4 in orbit soon.
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Authors
Principal Investigator
Professor in the Computer Engineering Department at the University of Santiago of Chile (USACH).
He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Chile and has extensive experience in embedded systems, nanosatellites, and flight software. Previously, he developed the SUCHAI family and PlantSat nanosatellites at SPEL, and worked at the Flight Software Department of the German Aerospace Center (DLR). Carlos is passionate about pushing the boundaries of distributed space systems and satellite flight software architectures.