{"id":109321,"date":"2020-06-29T20:02:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T03:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/quantum-entanglement-demonstrated-aboard-orbiting-cubesat-step-toward-space-based-global-quantum-network"},"modified":"2020-06-29T20:02:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T03:02:58","slug":"quantum-entanglement-demonstrated-aboard-orbiting-cubesat-step-toward-space-based-global-quantum-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/quantum-entanglement-demonstrated-aboard-orbiting-cubesat-step-toward-space-based-global-quantum-network","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Entanglement Demonstrated Aboard Orbiting CubeSat \u2013 Step Toward Space-Based Global Quantum Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-entanglement-demonstrated-aboard-orbiting-cubesat-step-toward-space-based-global-quantum-network2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Advance poised to enable cost-effective space-based global quantum network for secure communications and more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a critical step toward creating a global quantum communications network, researchers have generated and detected quantum entanglement onboard a CubeSat nanosatellite weighing less than 2.6 kilograms and orbiting the Earth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the future, our system could be part of a global quantum network transmitting quantum signals to receivers on Earth or on other spacecraft,\u201d said lead author Aitor Villar from the Centre for Quantum Technologies at the National University of Singapore. \u201cThese signals could be used to implement any type of quantum communications application, from quantum key distribution for extremely secure data transmission to quantum teleportation, where information is transferred by replicating the state of a quantum system from a distance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advance poised to enable cost-effective space-based global quantum network for secure communications and more. In a critical step toward creating a global quantum communications network, researchers have generated and detected quantum entanglement onboard a CubeSat nanosatellite weighing less than 2.6 kilograms and orbiting the Earth. \u201cIn the future, our system could be part of a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,1492,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-security","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}