The RAEGE station of Santa Maria is part of the RAEGE network (Atlantic Network of Geodynamic and Space Stations), a cooperation project established between the National Geographic Institute of Spain (IGN) and the Regional Government of the Azores. It is a unique project at a geodetic and geodynamic level, in which it is committed to the construction and operation of four Fundamental Geodetic Stations, namely: Yebes and Gran Canaria stations in Spain, Flores and Santa Maria stations in the Azores, Portugal. Santa Maria station has a radio telescope equipped with a triband receiver (S, X and Ka bands) and operates as a regular station within the IVS R1 and R4 sessions, since May 2021. For the past two years, the radio telescope infrastructure and signal chain underwent a series of maintenance procedures and improvements that are described in this contribution. Currently, the station has a team of ten people (and growing) distributed among IT, maintenance, administrative, science communication and R&D tasks. An overview of the state of the art of Santa Maria station and its plans, which includes the installation of a broadband VGOS receiver in the second half of 2022, are presented.