About Robert M. Salter
Lived 1920 – 2011 (aged 90–91). Robert M. Salter was an engineer.
Robert M. Salter Jr. was an American engineer who worked for the RAND Corporation. He was one of the first to study the possibility of using a satellite to collect information. During the 1970s, he advocated the vactrain high-speed transit concept. He also published papers on energy storage for the space program.
Salter died in May 2011.
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1920-2011 engineer
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Robert M. Salter died in 2011.
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Robert M. Salter was an engineer.
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