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About the Author
Don Knight is a retired systems engineer. He holds
a BS degree from San Diego State University
(Magna Cum Laude with distinction in Physics)
and an MS in Engineering / System Science from
UCLA. He is a member of the Phi Kappa Phi
Scholastic Honor Society and the Institute of
Electrical and Electronic Engineers.
While at JPL, he wrote the functional requirements document for the radio of the Voyager spacecraft, now the farthest man-made object from Earth and still operating. He helped design the first GPS receiver ever built, the Magnavox X-Set (1974-1975), working 12 years at Magnavox Research Lab while MRL was the US Air Force Phase I Prime Contractor for GPS User Equipment. He left MRL as a Senior Staff Engineer / Scientist and then consulted for 25 years to government, university labs, and private industry as a GPS and Inertial Navigation specialist.
While at JPL, he wrote the functional requirements document for the radio of the Voyager spacecraft, now the farthest man-made object from Earth and still operating. He helped design the first GPS receiver ever built, the Magnavox X-Set (1974-1975), working 12 years at Magnavox Research Lab while MRL was the US Air Force Phase I Prime Contractor for GPS User Equipment. He left MRL as a Senior Staff Engineer / Scientist and then consulted for 25 years to government, university labs, and private industry as a GPS and Inertial Navigation specialist.