Integrated glass ceramic spacecraft include a plurality of glass ceramic
components including molded, tempered, annealed, and patterned glass ceramic components
coupled together for forming a support structure or frame or housing through which
is communicated optical signals through an optical communications grid and electrical
signals through an electrical communications grid, with the optical communications
grid and electrical communication grid forming a composite electrooptical communications
grid for spacecraft wide intercommunications. The support structure multifunctions
as a frame, a housing, a support, a thermal control system, and as part of an electrooptical
communications grid while encapsulating a plurality of optical, electronic, electrical,
and MEMS devices between which is communicated the electrical and optical signals
over the electrooptical communication grid.