HENRY L RICHTER Hand Signed Autograph 4X6 Photo - NASA ENGINEER EXPLORER I

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American Engineer, born 1927. JPL/NASA Project manager for first US satellite, Explorer I. First person to get it's communication that it was in orbit. Left for private career in engineering and consultation
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Julie Cooper
In 2018 JPL celebrates the 60th anniversary of America’s first satellite, Explorer 1.
Henry Richter started working at JPL in 1955 as an engineer and Supervisor for the New Circuit Elements Group. Later he was a Staff Engineer for the Deep Space Network and then Chief of the Space Instruments Section (322). During the Explorer Project Dr. Richter was project manager for the satellite design, in charge of JPL experiments for the International Geophysical Year, and was liaison between the Satellite Instrumentation Group and the Operations and Data Groups. He published a book in 2015 –America’s Leap into Space: My Time at JPL and the First Explorer Satellites.
On Wednesday, January 31 at 3:30, Dr. Richter will present his JPL Story in the Hub (111-104), followed at 4:30 by a book signing. He’ll share the story of JPL’s role working for the Army/Caltech and of the remarkable people who were part of the Explorer team. During the late 1950s, JPL extended rocket engineering to spacecraft design, using components that were on the cutting edge of technology. When they were finally given the chance to combine the instruments, upper stages, and launch vehicle, they accomplished the task in just a few months.
About Henry Richter Ph.D., PE
Dr. Henry Richter brings an unusual depth of experience and expertise to projects across the voice, data, and wireless communications fields, with over 50 years’ experience in these disciplines.
Henry’s communications expertise is quite broad, having operated his own telecommunications consulting practice for over 20 years. In his practice he has served such clients as the federal Government, the States of Arizona, California, Nevada, and Oklahoma; the Counties of Hawaii, Kauai, Maui, and Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands; and the California Counties of Marin, Riverside, San Diego, San Joaquin, Sonoma, Ventura and Yolo; over 60 cities in eight states, including Boston, Fairbanks, Honolulu, Kodiak, Long Beach, Los Angeles, and San Diego; numerous special districts, including the Coachella Valley Water District, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the South Bay Regional Public Communications Authority; several school districts including the Los Angeles Unified and the San Diego Unified; a number of universities including the California Institute of Technology, the University of California, and Azusa Pacific University; and over a couple dozen private sector clients as well.
These projects have included information technology strategic planning, telephone system needs analyses, telephone system specification development acquisition and implementation management; computer-assisted dispatch (CAD) system and console studies, specifications development, and acquisition; design, acquisition and implementation of CCTV and paging systems; needs analyses, specifications development and implementation of microwave networks; and needs studies, master plan development, specifications creation, and implementation management of public safety conventional and trunked mobile radio systems.
Prior to beginning his consulting career, Dr. Richter served as a Section Chief at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, where he headed development of the free world’s first satellite -- Explorer I. Dr. Richter also had responsibility for all scientific instruments for the Ranger, Surveyor, and Mariner programs and spacecraft, and helped develop the world-wide DOD/NASA spacecraft tracking and communications network. He was honored in 2008 with the present and three former Directors of JPL by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Annual Achievement Award as a Spaceflight Pioneer.
Henry was then named Vice President and Technical Director of Xerox Electro-Optical Systems, Inc. (now Loral Corporation) in Pasadena, where he supervised a wide variety of scientific research, engineering development and hardware production in the fields of communications, upper atmosphere rocketry, tracking and telemetry, space power systems, exotic space propulsion systems, scientific instruments, semiconductor devices, computer applications, biosciences, and military hardware.
He then took up a challenge to serve as the Communications Engineer for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s extensive microwave and mobile radio networks, which ultimately led to the development of his consulting practice.
Dr. Richter received his Ph.D. in Chemistry, Physics, and Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology, as well as his Bachelor of Science from the same institution. He was the first Newmont Fellow of the California Institute of Technology, is a Senior Life Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, a Senior Member Emeritus of the American Chemical Society, a Senior Member of the American Geophysical Union, a Life Member of the Association of Public Safety Communication Officials, and was elected a member of the New York Academy of Sciences. He is a recipient of the Otto Schmidt Medal awarded by the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. In 2019 he was awarded the Life Achievement Award by the Radio Club of America. Dr. Richter has served on the National Industrial Advisory Committee to the Federal Communications Commission, and the Evaluation and Advisory Panel on Time and Frequency of the National Bureau of Standards. He holds a First Class Radio-telephone License and an Amateur Extra Class Amateur Radio License issued by the Federal Communications Commission. He is a retired California Professional Engineer (QU5567).