Potocnik, Hermann Pseudonym H. Noordung#
b. Pula, Croatia (then Pola), Dec. 22, 1892, d. Vienna, July 27, 1929, rocket engineer. Designed "standing satellites" powered by solar energy and used as space observatories. Calculated orbits, which were later proved to be exact.
Work: Das Problem der Befahrung des Weltraums, 1928.
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