Chinese team achieves ‘space-to-ground’ breakthrough in quantum satellite link

The Chinese state has invested a lot in ultra-high performance satellites in the last decade, the results are beginning to be seen and the tests are giving increasingly spectacular results even when it comes to seeing very clearly the face of a...

Chinese team achieves ‘space-to-ground’ breakthrough in quantum satellite link

Researchers used a small, light device and portable ground stations to set a record in communications.

South Africa and China set new quantum communication world record – The Mail & Guardian

Working through the night on the rooftop of the engineering building at Stellenbosch University, physicists Dr Yaseera Ismail and Professor Francesco Petruccione set a new world record by establishing the longest-ever secure quantum satellite communication link in partnership with researchers from China.This groundbreaking research was published for the first time on 19 March in the scientific journal Nature. Ismail and Petruccione co-authored t…

First World-Spanning Ultra-Secure Quantum Satellite Link Joins South Africa And China

With this record-breaking distance, secure quantum communication has now gone close to global.

Chinese-led team achieves 10,000-km quantum-secured communication

An international team led by Chinese scientists have realized quantum-secured communication across over 12,900 kilometers between China and South Africa.Using the Jinan-1 micro-nano satellite and compact ground stations, this new breakthrough in quantum

South Africa China achieve milestone with 12900 km quantum satellite connection

London, UK (SPX) Mar 20, 2025 Scientists from South Africa and China have achieved a historic milestone in quantum communication by creating the world's longest ultra-secure quantum satellite link, spanning an unprecedented 12,900 km. This link, established using the Chinese quantum microsatellite Jinan-1 in low Earth orbit, is also the first of its kind ever implemented in the Southern Hemisphere. The collaboration be