'Father of the geostationary satellite' gets lifetime achievement award

Harold A Rosen, whose work helped make possible the global broadband communications that shapes modern society, has received a lifetime achievement award from Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine.

Rosen, known as the ‘father of the geostationary satellite’, led the team that developed the Syncom satellite, launched in July 1963. This resulted in the adoption of the geostationary orbit and led to satellites for Communication Satellite System (Comsat) and Intelsat, which advanced international and transoceanic telephone, television and data transmissions via satellite.

Rosen began his career with Boeing legacy company Hughes in 1956. He directed the development of more than 150 communications satellites before retiring in 1993 and today serves today as a Boeing consultant.

Rosen received the National Academy of Engineering’s Draper Prize in 1995, the National Medal of Technology in 1985, the Communications and Computing Prize from NEC in 1985, the 1982 Alexander Graham Bell Medal and the 1976 Ericsson International Prize in Communications. He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2003.

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