Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics and Quantum Information, Universität Wien

The European Space Agency (ESA) has supported since 2002 several studies in the field of quantum communications for space systems. As a result of these studies, a European research consortium submitted the mission proposal Space-QUEST (“QUantum Entanglement for Space experimenTs”) to the European Life and Physical Sciences in Space Programme of ESA, aiming at a quantum communications space-to-ground experiment from the International Space Station ISS (rated as “outstanding” within ESA’s ELIPS-2 AO-2004-054). To bring quantum entanglement for the first time in the space environment will open a new range of fundamental physics experiments.

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