Hugo Fruehauf
Hugo Fruehauf (born July 14, 1939 ) is an American aerospace engineer and one of the developers of the technology behind GPS .
Fruehauf studied electrical engineering at DeVry University in Illinois and then worked as a rocket test engineer for Martin Marietta and Convair Astronautics ( Atlas - Agena , Titan I ICBM) at Vandenberg Air Force Base . He was also the test engineer for the TM 76-B cruise missile in Cape Canaveral . From 1965 he was at Rockwell International , where he was chief test engineer for the start tests of the 2nd stage of the Saturn V at their test station Mississippi Test Facility .
From 1973 to 1978 he was chief engineer at Rockwell for the design and further development of the GPS satellite (International Satellite Systems Division of Rockwell in Seal Beach, California). He was also chief engineer for Rockwell's competition for the TDRS ( Tracking and Data Relay Satellite ) - the contract then went to TRW Inc. - and he and Richard Schwartz developed the first atomic clock completely hardened against radiation in space (with rubidium vapor) . It was developed at Rockwell and Efratom in California and Munich.
After that he was President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the German electronics company Ball Efratom (and its successor, Datum Efratom) in Irvine, California and Munich, until 1995 . There he developed the first miniaturized atomic clock (based on rubidium vapor), which then became the standard on GPS satellites (BKL I, II and IIA, launched in orbits from 1978).
From 1995 to 1997 he was CTO and Group Vice President in the Defense Group of Alliant Techsystems (now Orbital ATK) and from 1998 to 2007 at Odetics Telecom, Zyfer, FEI-Zyfer (President and CEO ) in Anaheim and finally Vice President and CTO at the parent company Frequency Electronics Inc. (FEI) in Mitchel Field, New York. He led the development of various GPS products for civil and military applications.
In addition to his electronics engineering degree, he earned an MBA from Pepperdine University - Graziadio School of Business and Management in 2007 and founded his own consulting firm (Hugo Fruehauf Company) in 2008. He has also been Adjunct Professor at the Pepperdine University Graduate School since 2008.
For 2019 he received the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering with Bradford W. Parkinson , James Spilker and Richard Schwartz for GPS development .
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Early morning, Hugo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 14, 1939 |