{"id":113522,"date":"2025-10-31T05:12:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T05:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/113522\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T05:12:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T05:12:17","slug":"quantums-promise-for-near-and-long-term-space-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/113522\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantum&#8217;s promise for near and long-term space applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. \u2013 While organizations are focused on space applications for quantum communications, quantum computers are not likely to reach orbit for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if we see progress on the ground, it will take a long time before that could be a viable compute resource for space applications,\u201d Simone D\u2019Amico, EraDrive chief science officer, and Stanford University associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics, said Oct. 28 at the Satellite Innovation conference here.<\/p>\n<p>Organizations around the world are developing and testing space-based quantum key distribution, which relies on the properties of quantum mechanics to transmit information securely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe nodes that are communicating with one another can detect instantaneously whether someone is tampering with the communication or even intercepting it,\u201d D\u2019Amico said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ses.com\/newsroom\/eagle-1-advancing-europes-leadership-quantum-communications\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SES<\/a> is leading a European a consortium preparing to test quantum key distribution on the Eagle-1 satellite. Scheduled to launch in 2026, Eagle-1 will relay quantum keys to improve cybersecurity for banking, critical infrastructure and government applications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not theory anymore,\u201d said Mohammad Marashi, SES future business and innovation senior vice president. \u201cGround terminals are already being upgraded and deployed across Europe in order to do the testing next year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another near-term application is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/nasa-aims-to-fly-first-quantum-sensor-for-gravity-measurements\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">quantum gravity gradiometer<\/a> being developed by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor deep space applications, the quantum gravity gradiometer measures gravitational fields with accuracies that are orders of magnitude superior to what we can do with the classical methods,\u201d D\u2019Amico said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. \u2013 While organizations are focused on space applications for quantum communications, quantum computers are not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[68692,61,60,68693,4689,66912,82,49501,1935,247],"class_list":{"0":"post-113522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-eradrive","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-nasa-jpl","12":"tag-quantum-communication","13":"tag-satellite-innovation","14":"tag-science","15":"tag-ses","16":"tag-sn","17":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}