First data from
quantum
satellite
"Micius"
received
Aug. 18
The first
batch of data
from the world's
first quantum
satellite was
received by
Chinese
scientists, the
Chinese Academy
of Sciences
(CAS) said
Thursday.
The data was
received on
Wednesday by the
China Remote
Sensing
Satellite Ground
Station (RSGS),
located in Miyun
on the outskirts
of Beijing, at
11:56 a.m.
The 202 MB of
data was in good
quality and was
transferred to
China's National
Space Science
Center.
China
launched world's
first quantum
communication
satellite on
Tuesday. It is
nicknamed
"Micius," after
a fifth century
B.C. Chinese
philosopher and
scientist.
The satellite
is designed to
establish
"hack-proof"
quantum
communications
by transmitting
uncrackable keys
from space to
the ground, and
provide insights
into the
strangest
phenomenon in
quantum physics
-- quantum
entanglement.
RSGS is
responsible for
establishing
satellite
reception for
China's space
sciences and has
already built a
network for
near-earth
satellite
reception.
Apart from
the receiving
station in
Miyun, a station
in Kashgar,
northwestern
China, and one
in Sanya,
southern China,
will also track
and receive data
from "Micius" in
the future.
