Ideas in orbit
Talk for a while with MIT senior Raichelle Aniceto about satellites, and you might find you’ve caught the aerospace bug. An aeronautics and astronautics major from Salt Lake City, Aniceto has a contagious enthusiasm for the space gadgets she’s spent the last four years helping to develop. “There might be something you’re passionate about that other people might be interested in, but they might just not know about it,” she says. “I didn’t know a lot about aerospace engineering until I got to MIT, and I wish I did before.” Though she was new to aerospace when she entered MIT, Aniceto wasted no time immersing herself in the field. She has helped to design and build numerous satellites, led the MIT Robotics Team in building a planetary rover, conducted flight test research in Germany, and founded the student group MIT Women in Aerospace Engineering. As a sophomore, Aniceto was named in the...