* Martin Schilling; Helped Develop German V-2 Rocket, First U.S. Satellite

Martin Schilling, 88, a scientist who helped Wernher von Braun develop the German V-2, the first large ballistic missile. Schilling coordinated the design and installation of test stands and launch sites for the V-2 as a member of Von Braun’s staff at Peenemunde, Germany, during World War II. The V-2 had a one-ton warhead and, because it traveled faster than the speed of sound, gave the British at whom it was directed no warning of its approach. About 5,000 of the missiles were fired during the war. After Von Braun and his team surrendered at the end of the war, the group of 127 German scientists accepted jobs at Ft. Bliss in Texas and later at Huntsville, Ala., where they launched the first U.S. satellite into space in 1958. Later that year, Schilling left the rocket group and joined Raytheon, first as general manager of the missile systems division and later as vice president of research and engineering. He retired in 1977. Schilling was born in Dortmund, Germany, and earned a doctorate in applied physics at the Institute of Technology in Hanover. He was a recipient of the presidential Medal of Freedom and the Exceptional Civilian Service Award of the U.S. Army. On April 30 of heart failure in Burlington, Mass.