Robert Briskman

SIRIUS Satellite Radio’s Co-Founder Awarded Aeronautics and Astronautics Aerospace Communications Award.
    
SIRIUS Satellite Radio announced recently that Robert Briskman, SIRIUS' co-founder, has been awarded the 2007 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Aerospace Communications Award. The Aerospace Communications Award is presented for an outstanding contribution in the field of aerospace communications. This year, Briskman is honored for his pioneering efforts in developing the Satellite Digital Audio Radio Service (SDARS), known widely today as satellite radio.

For more than 70 years, the American Institute of Aeronautics and
Astronautics (AIAA) has been the principle society for aerospace engineers and scientists, and its members have achieved nearly every milestone in modern American flight. The Aerospace Communications Award will be presented at the 25th AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference in Seoul, South Korea on April 12, 2007.

Robert Briskman co-founded SIRIUS Satellite Radio in 1991. He was Chief Technical Officer and Executive Vice President, Engineering of SIRIUS and has been involved with communication satellite systems since their inception. As the technical innovator of mobile satellite radio services, he was responsible for the development, implementation and operation of SIRIUS' broadcast distribution system. His technology development responsibility included design of low cost satellite receiving terminals for automobiles and of broadcast sound programming, earth station, terrestrial repeaters and satellite control facilities. During 2000, Briskman supervised the launch of three SIRIUS satellites into a unique operational orbital constellation which he designed.

Over the past 32 years, Briskman directed the implementation of
satellite telecommunications systems at COMSAT and NASA. He holds
engineering degrees from Princeton University and University of Maryland and is a Fellow of IEEE and AIAA. He has published over 50 technical papers, holds a number of patents, and has been inducted into the Space Foundation and SSPI Halls of Fame.