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Were tube electronics used in space, or was the low weight of then-invented transistors a winning factor?
I just thought, that in the vacuum of space the tubes won't need their heavy glass, and so should be easier to make, and be quite lighter.
You could even make a kind of integrated circuits by putting valve parts and passive components as close as possible where on earth there would have been glass in the way.
So, does anybody know what used did the tubes seen in space, and were there ever naked ones?
I just thought, that in the vacuum of space the tubes won't need their heavy glass, and so should be easier to make, and be quite lighter.
You could even make a kind of integrated circuits by putting valve parts and passive components as close as possible where on earth there would have been glass in the way.
So, does anybody know what used did the tubes seen in space, and were there ever naked ones?