Max Mesner of RCA's Astro Space Division in East Windsor with the TIROS satellite, 1960
One of the presentations at Mercer Makes...looks at RCA's expansion during the Space Age into satellite design and production at its Astro-Electronics Division in East Windsor, and the evolution of its David Sarnoff Research Center in West Windsor after General Electric Company donated it to SRI International.
“Max Mesner (1910 – 2004) was a key member of the team of engineers at RCA Laboratories in Princeton who worked under David Sarnoff in the late 40s and early 50s to develop the color television system that became the standard for broadcasting in the US. He went on to join the new RCA Astro Space Division in East Windsor where he did pioneering development of high resolution electronic imaging for the US space program. He led the TIROS camera team efforts at RCA Lab 3. Between 1960 and 1966, RCA video recorders were used on all 11 TIROS weather satellites without a single mission failure.” “NASA came to trust RCA because we so thoroughly tested our equipment that we didn’t have failures. On the basis of this confidence, RCA also got the contract for the TV cameras on the space shuttles” said Mr. Mesner in 2000 for the Rossmoor News.
from the October 2010 issue of the Cranbury Historical & Preservation Society newsletter
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