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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