Student Presents Portable Ground Station Project for STEM Outreach in Schools
Jan 27, 2026·
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Dr. Carlos Gonzalez-Cortes
On 14 January, Claudia Villa gave her first conference talk at the IV Jornadas En Línea en Educación Superior y STEM, organised by CICES at the USACH Faculty of Engineering. She presented her thesis project on using satellite technology to foster STEM learning in schools through a portable ground station, supervised by Carlos González Cortés and Rodrigo Muñoz Lazo. The plan includes an intervention at the Liceo Bicentenario San Nicolás, an application to the VIME fund to cover three stations, and validation of the equipment with SUCHAI-4.
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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.