business. He later formed Rosen Motors with his brother, Ben, and developed a prototype hybrid electric powertrain for automobiles. He holds more than 80 patents, most of them related to satellites. “The U.S. Navy years were very important years for me,” he said. “The Navy taught you how to maintain newly acquired electronics, which were secret at the time and amazing at times. It got 50 Boeing Frontiers you to the point where they gave you a piece of equipment that had failed, and you diagnosed it, repaired it and put it back together real fast. It was hands-on practical experience. That, combined with my education, led me to have confidence. I still have that confidence.” Rosen went on to direct the development of more than 150 communications satellites before retiring as a vice president in 1993. In a 2008 interview for a feature about Syncom in Frontiers, Rosen said the proudest moment of his career, at Hughes and later Boeing, came at the NBC studios in Burbank, Calif., when he watched the first live broadcast of the 1964 Olympic Games from Tokyo— made possible by the two Syncom satellites orbiting Earth. “At the end of such a struggle it was a moment where I was really proud,” he
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