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…

Kyle Ikuma ('23) won the SEAS Lore van Jaskowksy Memorial Prize, for "noticeable élan in research that has resulted in a contribution to the field", in large part for his EduSat project! (as well as his work on MEMSat…

Shannen Prindle ('23), along with Kyle Ikuma, was awarded MAE's John Marshall II Memorial Prize for best Independent Work in the aerospace field, in large part for her senior thesis designing a low-cost CubeSat reaction wheel module (along with her prior…

Congratulations to Kevin Tong ('22) for winning the The John Marshall II Memorial Prize for best MAE independent work, including his senior thesis in the TigerSats lab, in which he surveyed, designed, and qualified (by high-altitude balloon launch and recovery!) a broad suite of CubeSat horizon sensors.  Learn more about Kevin's fantastic…

Congratulations to Sydney Hsu ('22) for winning the The Sigma Xi Book Award for MAE senior thesis with the highest research potential, for her work on the design, prototyping, and proof-of-concept of an origami aeroshell for CubeSats.  Learn more about Sydney's fantastic project…