another thing that makes me shudder ....is 'the threats' ... the threats that have come out of his 'spokespersons' mouth ... there was one there that was really really really over the top .. something about how ... 'he, (snowden) could and 'may' produce the entire blueprint for ... . .for? .... . .for .. well something big, hugely important and would actually leave us defenseless .. .and then of course that spokesperson came out the next day ...............sigh ... and 'told' us . ." WE TOOK IT ALL WRONG" !!!!!! ... . yes, from what I see or at least to what I am sensitive to is ...please . .. please please! .. don't tell me what to think or how to feel about someone or something... just give me the information and I'll access on my own ... read people I respect on it ... .and make my OWN decisions on how I feel and or think about anything .. .but I feel they were manipulating (or trying darn hard to) the media.. All the while saying ... "WE, OURS... weren't DOING it RIGHT!".... really? ... Well gee.........why didn't you send us a packet to all our media outlets .. telling us .. EXACTLY how to market it? .... please ... . They were in control for awhile . .but like everything and everyone .... that changes, tides turn ... stars die, new ones are born .........and we go on with NEW and different ideas ... . ;) ..........I was reading about these guys .. Thomas Hudspeth, left, Harold Rosen and Don Williams (not pictured) designed the electronics, propulsion and power system for a communications satellite. (Boeing)
Just WOW ... and OH the times! .. it must have been so exciting to be there.. .. ;) I think people were happy with all this AND about themselves and the US and their futures ... .. .. ;) Look at this it's in the Articles (there's two) ... . ;).......
What we are doing today shows what can be done through the peaceful use of space."
— President John F. Kennedy's telephone conversation with Prime Minister of Nigeria, inaugurating the Syncom 2 satellite on August 23, 1963. Audio: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
Mr. Rosen is 87 and still having a useful life .. ; )
One of them committed suicide young.. nothing was said about in these articles other than that fact ...
And here is a photo of Mr. Rosen now .. ;) Harold Rosen with models of his satellites at his home in Pacific Palisades. (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)
just a snip ~~
Rosen is an athletic 87-year-old with a full head of sandy-colored hair. He's lived in the same Pacific Palisades home — with ceiling-to-floor windows that overlook a lush garden — for 60 years.
His parents emigrated from Montreal to New Orleans, where he was born. After studying engineering at Tulane University, he dithered over whether to continue his education at Harvard or Caltech. The decision was made when he saw a Life magazine story about beach parties in Southern California. He bought a train ticket.
"I came out on the Sunset Limited and never looked back," Rosen recalled. "I still love the beach."
By the time Rosen arrived at Hughes in 1956, the company was gaining prominence in the scientific world. He began designing airborne radar that could spot Russian bombers, but the Air Force canceled the program and his bosses challenged him to find something new.
When Rosen's team proposed Syncom, many of the nation's top experts, notably at Bell Labs, thought they were on the wrong track. Instead, Bell Labs and others were working on a large network of satellites in low Earth orbit that would require a complex system of ground tracking stations.
Rosen was confident that he could build a satellite to operate at 22,000 miles directly above the equator, which would allow it to remain stationary and provide continuous coverage over a third of the world. The problem was that American rockets of the 1960s lacked the power to launch heavy payloads to high orbits. Rosen would have to keep Syncom as light as possible, which became the key to its success.
Top Hughes executives were reluctant to invest in a prototype, even after Rosen, Williams and Hudspeth each offered to invest $10,000. Rosen went to government offices, universities and competing electronics companies to find encouragement and a financial partner.
After Raytheon Corp. offered Rosen and his team jobs and the chance to develop Syncom there, Hughes executives changed their minds and committed to a $2-million investment.
"It was a vindication for everything we had gone through," Rosen said.
Rosen pioneered the overall concept and design: The satellite would remain stable by spinning like a gyroscope, and a propulsion system would maintain its orbital position. The barrel-shaped spacecraft was covered by solar cells that supplied electrical power.
Hudspeth designed an extremely lightweight antenna and the satellite's electronics.
Williams came up with a key innovation: using a single lightweight rocket engine to control the spinning satellite's position with short bursts of thrust. The resulting Williams patent, by itself, yielded Hughes millions in royalties.
By 1961, they had built a working 55-pound prototype, which they took to the Paris Air Show and used to transmit photos across the room.
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