Our nascent TigerCub project (see here and here) was taken on by the new “Orbital” subteam of our Rocketry Club…

The TigerSats Lab signed a launch services agreement with Alba Orbital to launch “TigerCub” (Princeton's first student-designed orbital vehicle)!  Alba will provide launch integration services, their Albapod orbital dispenser, and will themselves broker batched-launch services for an upcoming SpaceX Transporter mission.  Read more…

TigerSats PI and student team lead Anuja Magdum ('26) were invited to present our International Space Station-bound student microgravity experiments at the 2025 CubeSat Developer's Workshop at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (the birthplace of CubeSats).  The experiments are scheduled for launch in mid-2026!  See our talk…

TigerSats PI Mike Galvin was invited to present “TigerCub” (Princeton's first student-designed orbital vehicle) at the 2025 PocketQube Conference in Glasgow, Scotland.  The basis for the initial TigerCub design is Candace Do's…

The TigerSats Lab enrolled Princeton into a program offered by longtime STEM outreach collaborator MaxIQ that enables our students to design small, bread-slice-sized microgravity experiments to be launched on a SpaceX resupply mission to the International Space Station in 2026! &nbsp…

Candace Do ('24) won MAE's Morgan W. McKinzie Prize for best-overall senior thesis, for her design, build, and ground test of TigerSats' first tiny PocketQube picosatellite platform (affectionately named “TigerCub”!).  Read more about Candace's fantastic project here.  

Candace's project was…

Dave Singh was awarded the MAE Department's John Marshall II Memorial Prize for excellence in aerospace-related independent work, as well as the prestigious SEAS-wide Lore von Jaskowsky Prize for “noticeable élan in undergrad research”, all in part for his senior thesis project further developing the TigerSats' orbit-simulating

Princeton SEAS published a great story about lots of recent student work in the TigerSats Lab!

Part of the story was Shannen Prindle's ('23) long-awaited test flight on a parabolic zero-G aircraft (the…

Anuja Magdum ('26) presented her implementation of Shannen Prindle's ('23) CubeSat solar-charging testbed at the inaugural Maine Space Conference.  Other TigerSats projects presented at the conference included:

Dave Singh ('24) won competitive invitation to present his TigerSats junior Independent Work project (a novel Helmholtz cage testbed for CubeSat attitude control simulation) at the prestigious annual SmallSat Conference at Utah State.  Dave's project proved to be the most…