Richard Schwartz (engineer)
Richard Schwartz is an American aerospace engineer and one of the developers of the technology behind GPS .
Schwartz earned an engineering degree from Cooper Union College (he later also earned a business degree from Pepperdine University). From 1957 he was with Rockwell International in the space program. As program manager, he directed the first flights of the GPS satellites (chief engineer for this was Hugo Fruehauf , satellite development with the German electronics company Efratom) and was involved in the space shuttle flights on the part of Rockwell. With Fruehauf he developed the first atomic clocks (based on rubidium vapor) for GPS satellites. One problem was the hardening of electronics against space radiation.
In 1983 he became President of the Rockdyne Division of Rockwell and from 1990 was President of Hercules Aerospace and Executive Vice President of Hercules Corporation (for example Pegasus rocket , later to Alliant Techsystems , now Orbital ATK)). From 1995 to 2000 he was Chief Executive Officer and then Chairman of ATK (military missiles and others). Since 2004, he has also been a director of Frequency Electronics in Mitchel Field, New York.
For 2019 he received the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering with Bradford W. Parkinson , James Spilker and Hugo Fruehauf for GPS development .
He served on the board of directors of Astronautics Corporation of America and is a trustee and chairman of the finance committee of his old Cooper Union college.
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| SURNAME | Schwartz, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |