# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-v-charyk
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:58:56.136Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-v-charyk"
name: "Joseph V. Charyk"
slug: "joseph-v-charyk"
description: "Joseph Vincent Charyk was widely credited as the founder of the geosynchronous communications satellite industry. He was born in Canmore, Alberta to a Ukrainian family. Early in his career, Charyk consolidated the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Air Force, and United States Navy space programs into the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). He brought the first United States imagery satellite, CORONA, into operation and demonstrated signals intelligence technology from space. During his tenure, the NRO operated the U-2 reconnaissance aircraft and managed development of the A-12."
tagline: "American scientist (1920-2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joseph_V._Charyk.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1920-09-09"
deathDate: "2016-09-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.49
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.873146666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%81_%D9%88%DB%8C._%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9"
    title: "جوزف وی. چاریک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "جوزيف شاريك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_V._Charyk"
    title: "Joseph V. Charyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%99%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%84_%D0%A5%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA"
    title: "Йосиф Харик"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_V._Charyk"
    title: "Joseph V. Charyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%84"
    title: "Чарик, Джозеф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12166892"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump