| Roger Easton AKA Roger Lee Easton Born: c. 1920
Birthplace: Craftsbury Common, VT
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Inventor, Physicist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Global Positioning System Military service: US Naval Research Laboratory (1943-80) Working at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), American physicist Roger Easton was involved in development of the Vanguard, Minitrack, and Navy Space Surveillance Systems for spacecraft tracking, navigation and timing technology. He is best known for designing the US Navy's Timation (time navigation) geopositioning system, which used multiple satellites carrying stable and ultra-precise clocks to send signals allowing earth-based receiving devices to calculate their exact locations. Patented in 1974 after several years of design, construction, and collaboration, Easton's system forms the foundation for the NAVSTAR-Global Positioning System (GPS). Wife: Barbara Easton (m. 1945)
Son: Roger Easton, Jr.
Son: Richard Easton
University: BS, Middlebury College
National Medal of Technology 2005
Magellanic Premium (1997, with Bradford W. Parkinson)
National Aeronautic Association
Collier Trophy 1992
American Philosophical Society
IEEE
New Hampshire State House of Representatives (1982-86)
Author of books:
Vanguard I: Proposal, Installation, Launch and Selected Results (1958, with Martin Votaw)
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