{"id":71847,"date":"2017-08-09T22:22:48","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T05:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/chinese-quantum-satellite-sends-unbreakable-code"},"modified":"2017-08-09T22:22:48","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T05:22:48","slug":"chinese-quantum-satellite-sends-unbreakable-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/chinese-quantum-satellite-sends-unbreakable-code","title":{"rendered":"Chinese quantum satellite sends \u2018unbreakable\u2019 code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinese-quantum-satellite-sends-unbreakable-code.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BEIJING (Reuters) \u2014 China has sent an \u201cunbreakable\u201d code from a satellite to the Earth, marking the first time space-to-ground quantum key distribution technology has been realized, state media said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>China launched the world\u2019s first quantum satellite last August, to help establish \u201chack proof\u201d communications, a development the Pentagon has called a \u201cnotable advance\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The official Xinhua news agency said the latest experiment was published in the journal Nature on Thursday, where reviewers called it a \u201cmilestone\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-china-space-satellite-idUSKBN1AQ0C9?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_content=598be97e04d30111cde980b2&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook\">http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-china-space-satellite-idUS...e=facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING (Reuters) \u2014 China has sent an \u201cunbreakable\u201d code from a satellite to the Earth, marking the first time space-to-ground quantum key distribution technology has been realized, state media said on Thursday. China launched the world\u2019s first quantum satellite last August, to help establish \u201chack proof\u201d communications, a development the Pentagon has called a \u201cnotable [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1617,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-quantum-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71847","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}