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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/10/AR2009021003756.html
Andrew M. Werth, 74, a satellite technology developer and entrepreneur who was considered a key figure in the industry for decades, died Jan. 28 at Sibley Memorial Hospital’s Grand Oaks Assisted Living center. He had dementia.
Mr. Werth was former president of Hughes Network Systems International, where he helped build and sell satellite systems to 17 countries for a variety of uses, including telecommunications and weather forecasting.
He held a number of patents in the field of satellite technology and marketed Hughes technology that became the backbone of the private satellite network, connecting millions of retail businesses, including hotels, gas stations and other users.
Throughout his career, Mr. Werth managed to find time to bicycle, sometimes several thousand miles a year. He was a nationally ranked racer in his youth and in his senior years, when he resumed serious bicycling and raised his mileage to 10,000 miles a year. He won the USA Cycling Masters Track National Championship in 2000, 2003 and 2004.