{"id":30479,"date":"2016-09-24T20:49:42","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T03:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/chinas-micius-military-quantum-satellite-reports-important-progress"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:13:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:13:33","slug":"chinas-micius-military-quantum-satellite-reports-important-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/chinas-micius-military-quantum-satellite-reports-important-progress","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Micius Military Quantum Satellite Reports Important Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinas-micius-military-quantum-satellite-reports-important-progress.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum encryption uses the principle of \u201cquantum entanglement\u201d to foster communication that\u2019s totally safe against eavesdropping and decryption by others.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite\u2019s true military nature is being disguised under the civilian name, Quantum Experiments at Space Scale, or QUESS. Publicly, QUESS is being billed as an international research project in the field of quantum physics.<\/p>\n<p>Micius or Mozi is operated by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) while the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Sciences run the satellite\u2019s European receiving stations. The quantum satellite was launched last Aug. 16 from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinatopix.com\/articles\/101733\/20160924\/china-s-micius-military-quantum-satellite-reports-important-progress.htm\">http:\/\/www.chinatopix.com\/articles\/101733\/20160924\/china-s-m...ogress.htm<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum encryption uses the principle of \u201cquantum entanglement\u201d to foster communication that\u2019s totally safe against eavesdropping and decryption by others. The satellite\u2019s true military nature is being disguised under the civilian name, Quantum Experiments at Space Scale, or QUESS. Publicly, QUESS is being billed as an international research project in the field of quantum physics. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1625,9,1617,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encryption","category-military","category-quantum-physics","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30479","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30479"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66158,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30479\/revisions\/66158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}