Bruce Lusignan

Bruce Lusignan (born 1936)^[1] is an emeritus^[2][3] professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University^[4][5] and a visiting professor at Portland State University.^[6] He earned his B.S.E.E ('58), M.S.E.E. ('59) and Ph.D. ('63) degrees from Stanford.^[6] In the early 1960s, he worked in radio astronomy at Stanford.^[7][8] He has been director of Stanford's Communication Satellite Planning Center^[9][10] and Stanford's Center for International Cooperation in Space.^[5] He has also owned a small company designing cellular phones and pagers.^[11]

His areas of specialization are communications satellites, telephone switches, cellular networks and the related signal processing problems.^[6] He is inventor or co-inventor on 16 patents, including devices for metering power,^[12] RF signal reception,^[13] satellite transceivers,^[14] alarm systems for cellular base stations,^[15] tone generators for telephony,^[16] and VSAT terminals.^[17]

He has worked on designs for reusable launch vehicles^[9] based on the Black Horse concept.^[18] and has helped direct planning efforts for international cooperation on Mars exploration with the then-Soviet Union.^{[4][19][20][21]} He led later post-Soviet cooperation in planning for an international Mars mission that included a space logistics function for ICBMs: using missiles such as the SS-18 to pre-position fuel and other supplies in Earth orbit, and Russia's Energia booster to send the supplies to Mars ahead of the crew.^[22]

Lusignan also takes a strong interest in the politics and issues that arise in economic development,^[6] including sustainable development in Africa,^[10] earthquake relief and reconstruction in Peru,^[23] and rural telecommunications in the Middle East.^[24] For a number of years he ran EDGE – "Ethics of Development in a Global Environment"^[25] – a weekly seminar at Stanford about issues in international conflict, trade, environmental sustainability, and amelioration of poverty and racism.^[2][5]

In 1982, he was one of a number of professors who, with the support of their institutions, openly defied restrictions on use of otherwise-publicly available materials rationalized via the Arms Export Control Act.^[26]

• Lusignan, Bruce; Kiely, John (1970). Global weather prediction: the coming revolution. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. ISBN 9780030827990. https://books.google.com/books?id=h5kRAQAAIAAJ&q=bruce.lusignan. 

• "Dr. Bruce Lusignan". The Space Show. http://www.thespaceshow.com/guest.asp?q=121. 
• "Broadcast 121: Dr. Bruce Lusignan". The Space Show. May 21, 2003. http://www.thespaceshow.com/guest.asp?q=121. 
• "Broadcast 10: Dr. Bruce Lusignan, Stanford University, the militarization of space". The Space Show. Sep 12, 2001. http://www.thespaceshow.com/detail.asp?q=10. 

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