Rithik Gangopadhyay is a second-year engineering management and aerospace engineering master’s student in the Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences department at the University of Colorado Boulder, where his research focuses on remote sensing in the Earth and space sciences. Additionally, he is a Graduate Student Flight Controller on LASP's SmallSat Mission Operations Team, where he serves as graduate operations lead. He previously earned his bachelor’s in aerospace engineering with a minor in computer science at the University of Colorado Boulder.