Minoru S. Araki

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Minoru S. Araki , called Sam Araki, (* 1931 ) is an American research manager and aerospace engineer .

Araki studied mechanical engineering at Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in 1954 and a master's degree in 1955 and then went to the Lockheed Missiles and Space Company in Sunnyvale , California as a systems engineer . He stayed there until his retirement in 1997 as President of the company (which was called Lockheed-Martin Missiles and Space after its merger with Martin-Marietta in 1995 ). In the late 1950s and early 1960s he was responsible for the development of the Keyhole (Corona) satellite system, which until 1972 served as a spy satellite in around 145 missions, mainly over the Soviet Union. The Corona system was the first US spy satellite system in the USA.

He was also vice president and program manager of the Milstar program of secure communications satellites at Lockheed, and the early Arpanet and an electronic library called Dialog that pioneered the future of the Internet.

As Vice President of Lockheed Missiles and Space, he was involved in the Iridium project, the Exoatmospheric Reentry Vehicle Interceptor (ERIS) and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) program (part of the US ICBM defense) and in the development of the Sensor-to -Shooter concept that provides reconnaissance data in real time to stealth bombers. Participation in the Hubble space telescope program fell under his presidency .

After his retirement at Lockheed-Martin, he founded ST-Infonox, which integrates microsensor networks for security applications.

In 1990 he became a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Astronautical Society and an IEEE Fellow . In 2005 he received the Charles Stark Draper Prize for his participation in the Corona project . In 1994 he received the Wernher von Braun Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics , of which he is a fellow. He was named Asian-American Engineer of the Year. He became the National Reconnaissance Office's Pioneer of National Reconnaissance .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reference Book for Corporate Managements, Dun and Bradstreet Information Services 1991
  2. ↑ after American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  3. ^ NAE website
  4. ↑ Chinese Institute of Engineers, USA, with biography
personal data
SURNAME Araki, Minoru S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Araki, Sam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American engineer
DATE OF BIRTH 1931