China launches the world’s first “Hack-proof” Quantum communication satellite. Many unexpected problems were created every year due to many hackers. Most of the confidential data and documentation are leaked out so that it directly affects the security systems throughout the world, so different countries have applied different techniques to solve these problems in different fields. Likewise, China has also launched the world’s first “Hack-Proof” Quantum Communication Satellite to minimize the hacking problem on satellite.
In this age of global electronic surveillance and cyber attacks, a satellite, dubbed Quantum Science Satellite was designed to develop a “Hack-Proof” communication system by transmitting uncrackable encryption keys from space to the ground. To perform or check this technology, the 600-plus-kilogram Quantum Science Satellite also called Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (CSS) satellite, took off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gobi Desert at 1:40 AM local time on a 2-year mission on Tuesday.
During this time, the QUESS satellite will help China to perform unprecedented levels of experiments in quantum communication by sending an entangled photon from the satellite to relay stations in China and Europe. And this is about 1,200 kilometers separated. It is also used to test if the spooky property of quantum entanglement can work at long distances or not.
This satellite’s payloads include:
- Quantum key communicator
- Quantum entanglement emitter
- Quantum entanglement source
- Quantum experiment controller
- Processor
- Laser communicator
And these payloads were developed by the National Space Science Center in Beijing under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Not only this, but it will also be used to test the possibilities of communication through quantum “teleportation,” using an entangled pair of photons.
SO if this technology is successful, then the quantum information securely between two ground stations would have enormous implications for encryption and cryptography. Hence China has been focusing its strategy on Quantum Technology like the United States.