I was a research scientist at
Palo Alto Research Laboratories
by David K.
In the mid-1980s, I joined Lockheed’s Palo Alto Research Laboratories as
a research scientist. I had the opportunity to work alongside some of the
country's most highly regarded senior space physicists. Among them were Joseph
Reagan, Edward Shelley, Richard Johnson and Martin Walt. I was
privileged to be affiliated with "The Labs" for a decade-and-a-half.
My colleagues in the Space Plasmas Laboratory and the closely related Solar and
Astrophysics Laboratory produced some of the most sophisticated spaceflight
instruments ever developed to understand the geospace and solar plasma
environments. The participation by a corporate aerospace giant in fundamental
discoveries of the plasma universe was an enigma for a field of study typified
by university and government laboratories and represents a real feather in the
cap for Lockheed Martin.
