Wilbur Pritchard

Background

Pritchard, Wilbur was born on May 31, 1923 in New York City. Son of Harmon and Jessie H. (Roth) Pritchard.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, City College of New York, 1943; Doctor of Science (honorary), City College of New York, 1993; postgraduate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1948-1952.

Career

Microwave engineer, manager Wayland Laboratory, Raytheon Company, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1946-1960; director engineering Europe, Raytheon Company, Rome, 1960-1962; group director satellite communication systems, Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, California, 1962-1967; vice-president, director, Comsat laboratories, Clarksburg, Maryland., 1967-1973; president, Fairchild Space & Electronics Company, Germantown, Maryland., 1973-1974; president, Satellite Systems Engineering, Bethesda, Maryland., 1974-1989; president, SSE Telecom, Inc., Bethesda, 1987-1989; president, Direct Broadcast Satellite Corporation, Bethesda, 1982-1986; president, W.L. Pritchard & Company, Inc., Bethesda, since 1989. Chairman panel on broadcast satellites National Academy Sciences, Falmouth, Massachusetts, 1967. Member space applications board National Academy Engineering, Colorado, 1968;member space applications advising committee National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, 1984, space and earth science advising committee, 1984-1988, National Academy Engineering commission on Voice of America, 1986-1989.

Achievements

• Wilbur Pritchard has been listed as a noteworthy telecommunications engineering executive by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Satellite Communications Systems Engineering

    ( Detailing concepts and calculations from the entire fi...)

  • Satellite Communications Systems Engineering (2nd Edition)

    ( Detailing concepts and calculations from the entire fi...)

  • (Satellite Communications Systems Engineering ) Author: Wilbur L. Pritchard Mar-1993
  • China space report ; based on observations made during an invited tour with an AIAA delegation, November 1979
  • Satellite Communications Systems Engineering by Wilbur L. Pritchard (1986-01-03)
  • Communication Satellite Systems Engineering

Membership

Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Aerospace Communications award 1972), British Interplanetary Society. Member National Academy Engineering, Society Satellite Professionals International (hall fame 1997), American Astronautics Society (senior ), International Academy Astronautics.

Connections

Married Kathleen H. Moss, April 24, 1949. Children: Hugh, Sarah, Ruth.

Father:

Harmon Pritchard

Mother:

Jessie H. (Roth) Pritchard

Spouse:

Kathleen H. Moss

child:

Sarah Pritchard

child:

Ruth Pritchard

child:

Hugh Pritchard