{"id":224616,"date":"2025-11-06T01:17:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T07:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/scientists-reveal-it-is-feasible-to-send-quantum-signals-from-earth-to-a-satellite"},"modified":"2025-11-06T01:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T07:17:14","slug":"scientists-reveal-it-is-feasible-to-send-quantum-signals-from-earth-to-a-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/scientists-reveal-it-is-feasible-to-send-quantum-signals-from-earth-to-a-satellite","title":{"rendered":"Scientists reveal it is feasible to send quantum signals from Earth to a satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-reveal-it-is-feasible-to-send-quantum-signals-from-earth-to-a-satellite2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum satellites currently beam entangled particles of light from space down to different ground stations for ultra-secure communications. New research shows it is also possible to send these signals upward, from Earth to a satellite; something once thought unfeasible.<\/p>\n<p>This breakthrough overcomes significant barriers to current quantum <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/satellite\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">satellite<\/a> communications. Ground station transmitters can access more power, are easier to maintain and could generate far stronger signals, enabling future quantum computer networks using satellite relays.<\/p>\n<p>The study, <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prresearch\/abstract\/10.1103\/v3p1-kz4h\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cQuantum entanglement distribution via uplink satellite channels\u201d<\/a>, by Professor Simon Devitt, Professor Alexander Solntsev and a research team from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), is published in the journal Physical Review Research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum satellites currently beam entangled particles of light from space down to different ground stations for ultra-secure communications. New research shows it is also possible to send these signals upward, from Earth to a satellite; something once thought unfeasible. This breakthrough overcomes significant barriers to current quantum satellite communications. Ground station transmitters can access more [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224616","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}