Joseph C. Peden, age 86, died on April 21, 2020, from heart failure. He was born in Smithton, PA (near Pittsburgh), USA, on December 27, 1934. He earned a degree in nuclear engineering from Penn State University, State College, PA, USA, in 1956. He began his professional career at the Hanford Plutonium Works in Richland, WA, USA, which at that time was managed by General Electric (GE). During that time, he attended graduate school (part-time), and received the M.S. degree in physics from Washington State University. In 1964, he moved to the GE Space Division in Valley Forge, PA, where GE was working on the NASA Landsat satellite. His initial work was on solar cell research. That evolved into satellite survivability studies, including critical hardware for several NASA spacecraft that were supported by GE.

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在纪念约瑟夫·C·佩登中

86岁的约瑟夫·佩登（Joseph C. Peden）于2020年4月21日因心力衰竭去世。他于1934年12月27日出生于美国宾夕法尼亚州史密斯顿（匹兹堡附近）。他于1956年在美国宾夕法尼亚州立大学宾夕法尼亚州立大学获得了核工程学学位。他在汉福德开始了他的职业生涯。 WA工厂位于美国华盛顿的里奇兰，当时由通用电气（GE）管理。在此期间，他上了研究生院（兼职），并获得了华盛顿州立大学的物理学硕士学位。1964年，他移居到宾夕法尼亚州福奇谷的GE太空部门，GE在该部门研究NASA Landsat卫星。他的最初工作是研究太阳能电池。后来演变成卫星的生存能力研究，包括由GE支持的几种NASA航天器的关键硬件。