2022 IEEE Biennial Congress of Argentina (ARGENCON)

Pablo Marino is an electronic engineer from the Faculty of Engineering of the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) with a postgraduate degree in Telecommunications and specialization in the Space Area. IEEE member, president of the Argentine chapter of Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC), Antennas and Propagation. He has worked as a teacher in technical schools and universities, in undergraduate and postgraduate courses. He practiced engineering for several years in the private sphere. Since 2006, he has worked in the aerospace area at the National Commission for Space Activities (CONAE). He has worked throughout the development of the SAOCOM mission and participated as a collaborator in the SACD and SABIA-Mar missions. It currently develops and executes research, development and innovation (IDI) projects within the organization, and some of them together with other institutions. His main field of work has been the area of systems and laboratory tests in the area of EMC and RF electronics, particularly applied to ground and flight radars. One of his greatest interests is to understand and help improve performance and good teamwork practices, which is why he has spent several years studying the subject, taking specialization courses on these topics and applying it within the teams he has had in charge.

She has a PhD in Physics from the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, University of Buenos Aires. She works in the aerospace industry since 2009, your main field of expertise being LEO Satellite Missions Operations design, development, validation and execution. She has served as Flight Engineering for Operations Group coordinator of the SAC-D/Aquarius mission, and then Mission Operations Manager of SAOCOM 1 and SABIA-Mar (currently). As a manager she is am deeply committed to improving my area’ s performance and teamwork best practices. For this reason, she has devoted several years to knowledge management, focusing on team members’ training and lessons learned collection, processing and dissemination. She is a professor in Aerospace Master’s degree careers. Received the CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION of the Aquarius/SAC-D Mission: “In recognition of your outstanding work supporting the Aquarius mission and launch of the Aquarius/SAC-D Observatory”; delivered by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) y Jet Propulsion Laboratory (2013).

Technician and engineer in electronics received at FIUBA. In 1995 he was selected along with 10 other engineers from all over the country to be trained in Europe in space systems to integrate the operations engineering group of the first Argentine GEO satellite: the Nahuel 1A. He actively participated in the development of the Arsat 1 and 2 and currently leads the Arsat guidance, navigation and control group. His work includes orbital dynamics, avionics, software, launchers and propulsion.

Juan Pablo Saldía has been an Adjoint Professor (Profesor Adjunto) since 2020 with the Department of Aeronautics, Faculty of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC). From this institution, he earned an undergraduate degree in Aeronautical Engineering in 2009, Master in Aerospace Engineering summa cum laude in 2012 and Dr. in Engineering Sciences in 2015. His research interests center on the development, implementation and application of computational fluid dynamics techniques in areas such as atmospheric reentry aerothermodynamics of space vehicles, blast effects and wind loads on oil storage systems among other aerospace, mechanical and civil engineering problems. He has participated as a member of research projects financed by Secretary of Science & Technology of UNC (SECyT-UNC), CONICET, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MINCYT) of Argentina and Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche of France.

Dean of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Palermo. Director of the LABSAT IoT Project. Electronic Engineer (UBA). He has participated in conferences and published various papers in the areas of Neural Networks, VLSI, Performance in IP Networks, and Voice over IP. His research includes Neural Networks in VLSI (UBA), Exponential Calculus (UP), Measurement of Demand and Capacity in IP Networks (UP), Electromagnetic Wave Incidence Angle Detector (UBA).

Leonardo Regoli completed his bachelor degree in electronics engineering at the Universidad Central de Venezuela. After working for three years as a research and development engineer at a private company in Caracas, he completed his M.Sc. studies in space science and technology at the Julius-Maximilians Universität Würzburg in Germany and the Luleå Tekniska Universitet in Sweden. After finishing his studies, he worked as a research assistant in the field of computer vision applied to the detection of non-collaborative objects in space. Following that, he completed his PhD studies at the University College London in the UK and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany, studying the interaction of Titan with the Saturnian magnetosphere. After a 3-year postdoc at the University of Michigan studying the interaction of Mars with the solar wind, he joined the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland, where he actually works as a researcher studying different aspects of magnetospheric interactions with the solar wind, as well as in the development and calibration of particles (electrostatic analyzers and energetic neutral atom cameras) and fields (magnetometers) instruments.

Miguel San Martin was born the 6 th of January of 1959 in his family farm in Villa Regina, Río Negro and he grew up in Bs. As. After finishing his school studies at the Industrial Pío Nono High School, he went to the USA to carry on with his studies and to fulfill his dreams of contributing with the NASA space exploration. He graduated with summa cum laude honors from Syracuse University with the degree of Electronic Engineer and from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Master in Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering. He was recruited at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory which specializes in the robotic planetary exploration where he has been working for 37 years. His field is the Guidance, Navigation and Control
of interplanetary spacecraft. Early in his career he participated in the Magallanes mission to Venus and Cassini to Saturn. Later, he was designated chief Engineer of the system of Guidance, Navigation and Control of the Pathfinder Mission which
landed on the surface of Mars the Sojourner the first robotic mobile vehicle in the red planet. After that he had the same post in the mission to Mars which resulted with the landing of the Spirit and Opportunity robotic vehicles. He later worked as Chief Engineer of the system of Guidance, Navigation and Control which controlled the Curiosity during the successful landing in Mars on the 5 th of August of 2012. Nowadays, Miguel San Martin is the chief engineer of the section of the JPL Guidance, Navigation and Control and he contributes in various missions of the JPL and in the development of advanced techniques of landing in planetary corps. For his contributions in the space exploration Miguel San Martin was awarded Fellow of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2013 and member of the National Academy of Engineering of the USA in 2019. He is has been married with Susan for 38 years and he has two daughters Samantha 35 years old and Madeleine of 29.

Technician and engineer in electronics received at FIUBA. In 1995 he was selected along with 10 other engineers from all over the country to be trained in Europe in space systems to integrate the operations engineering group of the first Argentine GEO satellite: the Nahuel 1A. He actively participated in the development of the Arsat 1 and 2 and currently leads the Arsat guidance, navigation and control group. His work includes orbital dynamics, avionics, software, launchers and propulsion.