Fun Space Stuff Orbital Mechanics + other class topics Fun career / project stuff
100
What is light travels at lightspeed / Maddie can confirm right answer?
When you look at things you're actually looking at the past. Why?
100
What is FALSE?
True or false: something in a higher altitude orbit moves faster than something in a lower altitude orbit
100
What is an asteroid?
Maddie led a design team last spring that designed a spacecraft that was sent to this
200
What is special relativity?
This concept / topic is why one twin traveling at light speed would come back younger than the twin that stayed
200
What is delta V / change in velocity?
To change orbits / do anything in space, you have to have add this to your current movement
200
What is secret, top secret (no SCI access)?
Maddie possesses this level clearance now, but just started the process to get this clearance
300
What is Mars is smaller = less gravitational pull?
Someone that weighs 100 kg on earth would only weigh 38 kg on Mars. Why?
300
What is solid?
Maddie spent a lot of time learning rocket science, and she loves the Falcon 9 and Heavy rockets. Are they solid or liquid propellant rockets?
300
What is a space sport?
Maddie's senior design course has to create this
400
What is "sound waves have to move through a medium and space is a vacuum"?
Sound can't propagate in space because of this.
400
What is Van Allen Belts / magnetosphere / radiation / charged particles?
We know a lot about space weather from Maddie's class last semester. What causes the aurora borealis?
400
What is 'square', 'round / circular'?
Maddie's dream job is to do the type of engineering from Apollo 13. They have to fit a *this shape* peg into *this shape* hole
500
What is "Maddie will explain if Kevin can't remember"?
Maddie's told Kevin a lot about how black holes work. How do they work, Kevin?
500
What is a heat shield?
What prevents astronauts from disintegrating on reentry into the Earth's atmosphere?
500
What is Space Systems Engineer?
This is Maddie's job title at Northrop Grumman this fall






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