In the 1990s the ESA began a project to develop their own, open source, easily usable processor for space applications. Before this the ESA had used mainly MIL-STD-1750A processors, both American made ones, or direct copies their of, such as the Dynex MAS281, a clone of the McDonnel Douglas MDC281. The ESA explored many different […] The post SPARCs in Space: The Cobham UT700 Leon3FT Processor first appeared on The CPU Shack Museum.