Developer of the GPS Satellite

The world navigates by a Global Positioning System (GPS) whose space-based heart is a sophisticated atomic clock system housed in satellites. Until Richard Schwartz and his team developed, built and launched the first GPS satellites in 1978, many experts considered an economical space-based navigation system to be an impossibility. Mr. Schwartz says he first learned how to solve detailed technical problems, visualize new technologies’ capabilities and build exceptional teams – at Brooklyn Tech. A member of the GPS and Space Technology Hall of Fame, Mr. Schwartz, received the 2012 Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy and was a recipient of the global 2019 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.