1984-1987 Employment by the Miralite Company

Upon the death of Buckminster Fuller and the subsequent cancellation of the Deresonated Tensegrity Geodesic Dome with Norman Foster and Partners, John Warren was compelled to go into the field of composite tooling of earthstation antennas. He worked for the Miralite Company in Santa Ana, California. They sent him to South America where tooling and an antenna was constructed with local labor and materials. This tooling later served as the basis of an antenna manufacturing company in Bogota, Colombia. This company has now made hundeds of antennas from the tooling. Upon return to California, Miralite employed John to build a 5 meter diameter offset-fed antenna which served at the time as a unique up and downlink for educational networks.

Subsequent to the Miralite projects, John was hired as an inspector by Jet Propulsion Laboratories for the creation of an interim  subreflector, which was part of the upgrading of the Deep Space Network for the 'Neptune Flyby' of the spacecraft Voyager 2. See the JPL website on the Deep Space Network's achievements in communicating with these distant spacecraft. http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/news/profiles_dsn.html

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