PRISMSpace-1

PRISMSpace-1 is an educational 1U CubeSat designed, built, and tested by students at Princeton International School of Mathematic and Science (PRISMS), Princeton, NJ. As part of PRISMS’ Junior/Senior Research & Development program, a group of students at PRISMS were able to fully develop this satellite payload in the span of 2 years, leveraging resources available in the school and the Princeton area.

Led by Adam Kemp, Co-Head of STEAM Department at PRISMS and students’ Applied Engineering Research mentor, each student proposed, designed, and constructed a unique system that made up the satellite payload. PRISMSpace-1 was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) on the April 2nd of 2018 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station as a part of the CRS-14 Resupply Mission. After 31 days of operation in low-earth orbit (primarily inside the SpaceTango module on board of the ISS), the payload was recovered and later delivered back to PRISMS for further analysis.

PRISMSpace-1 is a great educational resource that already has and will continue to provide groundwork for future research projects at PRISMS. Data and the results acquired as part of the experiments are being analyzed by our students, and in the future will be available for the broader educational and scientific community.