quantum encryption Archives - SpaceNews https://spacenews.com Covering the business and politics of space Wed, 07 May 2025 22:31:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://spacenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/cropped-SN_forza_star-32x32.png quantum encryption Archives - SpaceNews https://spacenews.com 32 32 80681979 IonQ to acquire Capella Space in bid to build ultra-secure quantum network https://spacenews.com/ionq-to-acquire-capella-space-in-bid-to-build-ultra-secure-quantum-network/ https://spacenews.com/ionq-to-acquire-capella-space-in-bid-to-build-ultra-secure-quantum-network/#respond Wed, 07 May 2025 22:26:14 +0000 https://spacenews.com/?p=517151

The quantum computing firm plans to build the first space-based quantum key distribution system

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]]> https://spacenews.com/ionq-to-acquire-capella-space-in-bid-to-build-ultra-secure-quantum-network/feed/ 0 517151 China is developing a quantum communications satellite network https://spacenews.com/china-is-developing-a-quantum-communications-satellite-network/ https://spacenews.com/china-is-developing-a-quantum-communications-satellite-network/#respond Fri, 10 Mar 2023 10:11:18 +0000 https://spacenews.com/?p=146386 Liftoff of CAS Space's first Lijian-1 solid rocket from the desert spaceport of Jiuquan on July 27, 2022.

Chinese research institutes are working to construct a quantum communications network using satellites in low and medium-to-high Earth orbits.

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A technology demonstration satellite for which SES will lead the development could be a prototype of a constellation by the satellite operator providing quantum-encrypted communications.

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]]> 132201 Loft Orbital to fly Canadian quantum communications satellite https://spacenews.com/loft-orbital-to-fly-canadian-quantum-communications-satellite/ https://spacenews.com/loft-orbital-to-fly-canadian-quantum-communications-satellite/#respond Tue, 04 Aug 2020 10:02:28 +0000 https://spacenews.com/?p=104463

Loft Orbital on Aug. 4 announced a contract to provide the spacecraft platform and arrange a launch for a Canadian quantum communications experiment. 

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The Canadian government will launch a new satellite in 2022 to demonstrate the use of quantum technology for protecting commercial and national communication networks.

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