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Pritchard & Co., Inc., a Washington, D.C., consulting engineering firm doing technical and economic studies in telecommunications and specializing in satellite communications for clients around the world. He was born in New York City and as a child had an enormous interest in how things worked, building crystal radio sets, taking apart telephones and clocks, and frequently putting them back together.
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Bill entered the field of satellite communications in 1962 when he joined the Aerospace Corporation in California. Here, he directed the team that produced the nation's first operational military satellite system and assisted the North Atlantic Treaty Organization with its communications satellite program.
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a Bethescia-based consulting engineering firm doing technical and economic studies in telecommunications for private firms and governments. The author of more than fifty conference articles anc!
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" Sarah exclaimed, "Imagine the designer of global communication satellite systems not recognizing a clothes dryer! " Bill had a unique and exceptional range of skills and talents.
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Bill Pritchard's death was untimely but his skills and talents, his spirit and wisdom live on as an inspiration to those who had the privilege of knowing him and to many others who have benefited from the implementation of his pioneering vision of satellite communications.
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