Sabrina Thompson

Sabrina Nicole Thompson (born April 9, 1985) is an American aerospace engineer. As a Flight Dynamics Lead Analyst at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, Thompson has developed orbits and trajectories for various NASA missions and mission concepts. was born on April 9, 1985, in Roosevelt, New York. Thompson was raised in Roosevelt and attended Roosevelt Public Schools from pre-kindergarten through high school. Thompson admired the athletes Cynthia Cooper, Teresa Edwards, and Teresa Weatherspoon and desired to become an artist or basketball player when she became older. She did not know what engineers were until her final year in high school. By the end of high school, Thompson chose to study engineering at university, after her art teacher recommended she study the subject since she excelled in math and science. From 2007 to 2009, she attended the Georgia Institute of Technology for a master's degree in aerospace engineering In this position, she worked on trajectories, orbit analysis, and mission design for spaceflight missions using CubeSats; research and development on using CubeSats for deep space missions; and flight dynamics of satellites in the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission. and has pursued a PhD in atmospheric physics at the institution since 2017. HARP2, a copy of HARP with updated instrumentation, is set to be launched on the NASA satellite Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE)

The game studio Neon, founded in 2020, worked with Thompson to check the accuracy of technical language used in their blockchain game Shrapnel.

Girl in Space Club In 2018, Thompson created a direct-to-consumer streetwear brand named Girl in Space Club.