Firing Photons Makes Advance in Space Communication

April 10, 2008
The News Journal of Physics has published the results of an experiment concerned with the possibility of a quantum channel between space and Earth in the world-renowned New Journal of Physics.

The News Journal of Physics has published the results of an experiment concerned with the possibility of a quantum channel between space and Earth in the world-renowned New Journal of Physics. For the first time, physicists have identified individual returning photons after firing and reflecting them off of a space satellite in orbit almost 1,500 kilometers above the Earth.

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