VIME Fund: Project Will Bring Satellite Ground Stations to High Schools to Strengthen STEM Teaching
Apr 29, 2026·
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Dr. Carlos Gonzalez-Cortes
Dr. Carlos González was awarded a VIME grant for a project that connects high-school STEM groups with real space missions developed in Chile, framed by the low-cost nanosatellite programme that will launch SUCHAI-4 during 2026. The project builds a portable ground station able to capture satellite signals and takes it into classrooms. It responds to an unequal access to space-based STEM experiences among secondary students, and aims to motivate specialisation in STEM careers through hands-on work with locally built space technology and its mission operations.
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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.