Technology

David J. Whalen
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David J. Whalen: University of North Dakota

Chapter 6 in The Rise and Fall of COMSAT, 2014, pp 131-143 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Comsat was a technological Camelot; Charyk, Metzger and Reiger recruited the “best and brightest” from among their friends and acquaintances. Given the backgrounds of Charyk and Reiger, this meant that most of the staff had a military flavor. In researching this book, the author was belabored by many seeking information on the spying and intelligence aspects of Comsat, given the number of employees who came from the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and other “black” enterprises. These were brilliant people, but there was no conspiracy: just a reflection of where Charyk and Reiger (and Metzger) had worked in the post-war world. The backgrounds of some of these technical people are provided below. They were very much the “best and brightest” of the post-war engineers.

Keywords: Solar Cell; Geosynchronous Satellite; Feed Horn; Aerospace Corporation; Technical People (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137396938_7

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