Silicone on Sapphire

[BarryMead]

(03-13-2016 12:57 PM)BillCRAV Wrote:  (the Space Shuttle MIGHT have used one in one of its systems)

As part of the team who designed the Shuttle's Secure Communications Systems, I can confirm that the Pre-launch Ground Team used a device with an 1802 to load the top secret encryption keys into the secure communications systems aboard the shuttle. The 1802 controlled "Electronic Fill Device", as it was called, did not actually go into space, however.