Eberhardt Rechtin
Eberhardt Rechtin (born January 16, 1926 in East Orange (New Jersey) , † April 14, 2006 in Torrance ) was an American telecommunications and systems engineer and manager. He worked in particular in the aerospace and aerospace sectors. He is considered the father of the Deep Space Network .
Rechtin served in the US Navy during World War II and studied at Caltech , where he received his doctorate in electrical engineering in 1950. In the late 1950s, he led a team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory that developed the Deep Space Network for NASA for communication with satellites in the depths of the solar system. It went into operation in the early 1960s (with antennas in California, Spain and Australia) and was also used to transmit television images from the moon landing in 1969. It was also used for military and secret service purposes (localization of spy satellites). In 1967 he became director of DARPA and in 1972/73 he was Assistant Secretary for Defense for Telecommunications. He was later chief engineer at Hewlett Packard and then at Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo. In 1987 he became a professor at the University of Southern California . He was an early proponent of systems architecture as an academic discipline.
In 1977 he received the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal .
Fonts
- Systems Architecting, Creating and Building Complex Systems, Prentice-Hall 1991
- with Mark W. Maier: The Art of Systems Architecting, CRC Press, 1997, 2000
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Right, Eberhardt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American engineer and manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 16, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | East Orange, New Jersey |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 14, 2006 |
| Place of death | Torrance |