Roger Easton AKA Roger Lee Easton Born: 30-Apr-1921 Birthplace: Craftsbury, VT Died: 8-May-2014 Location of death: Hanover, NH Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Inventor, Physicist Nationality: United States Executive summary: Global Positioning System Military service: US Naval Research Laboratory (1943-80) Working at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), American physicist Roger Easton was involved in development of the Vanguard, Minitrack, and Navy Space Surveillance Systems for spacecraft tracking, navigation and timing technology. He is best known for designing the US Navy's Timation (time navigation) geopositioning system, which used multiple satellites carrying stable and ultra-precise clocks to send signals allowing earth-based receiving devices to calculate their exact locations. Patented in 1974 after several years of design, construction, and collaboration, Easton's system forms the foundation for the NAVSTAR-Global Positioning System (GPS). Father: Frank Birch Easton (physician) Mother: Della Donnocker Wife: Barbara Easton (m. 1945, until his death, two sons, one daughter) Son: Richard Easton Son: Roger Easton, Jr. Daughter: Ruth Easton
High School: Craftsbury Academy (1939) University: BS Physics, Middlebury College (1943)
National Medal of Technology and Innovation 2005 Magellanic Premium (1997, with Bradford W. Parkinson)
National Aeronautic Association
Collier Trophy 1992
American Philosophical Society IEEE New Hampshire State House of Representatives (1982-86)
Author of books:
Vanguard I: Proposal, Installation, Launch and Selected Results (1958, with Martin Votaw)
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