Редактирование: Christopher Altman (раздел)

== NASA Quantum Future Technologies ==
[[File:PISCES_Rover.jpg|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PISCES_Rover.jpg|thumb|300x300px|<small>'''PISCES''' '''·''' Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems '''·''' Next-generation lunar rover testing on Mauna Kea</small>]]
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[[File:Mauna kea 2.jpg|thumb|right|300x300px|<small>Sunset from the summit of Mauna Kea</small>]]

Following the inaugural program launch conference, Altman accepted a position as senior research scientist with the University of Hawaiʻi and the Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems (PISCES). PISCES is an international alliance between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), working together on a remote operations site near the summit of Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi where the Apollo astronauts trained prior to the Moon missions.<ref>[http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/photos-apollo-astronauts-training-hawaii-released-article-1.1812533 Photos of Apollo astronauts training in Hawaii released]. NY Daily News.</ref> <ref>[https://phys.org/news/2014-05-decades-old-photos-emerge-apollo-images.html Decades-old photos emerge of Apollo training]. Phys.org</ref> <ref>[http://www.techtimes.com/articles/7899/20140603/vintage-photos-apollo-astronauts-training-hawaii-moon-mission-released.htm Vintage photos of Apollo astronauts training in Hawaii for moon mission released]. Tech Times</ref> On location, next-generation spacesuit prototypes and lunar rovers, augmented reality interfaces, in-situ resource utilization and robotics field tests are used to train astronauts and test new prototypes for the next series of manned lunar and Mars missions.<ref>[http://www.businessinsider.com/old-photos-show-astronauts-training-in-hawaii-2014-6 Amazing Vintage Photos Show Astronauts In Hawaii Training For Moon Missions]. Business Insider</ref><ref>[http://mauinow.com/2017/02/16/nasa-practices-for-mars-mission-on-big-island/ Maui Now: NASA Practices for Mars Mission on Big Island]. Maui Now (2017-02-16).</ref>

===  DARPA Quiness: Macroscopic Quantum Communications ===
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<small>Inaugural Conference on Quantum Future Technologies '''·''' NASA Ames '''·''' 2012</small>
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On invitation from Ames Director Pete Worden, Altman attended the inaugural NASA Quantum Future Technologies conference in January 2012.<ref name=":41">[https://web.archive.org/web/20161118024355/http://quantum.nasa.gov/roll.html Inaugural NASA Quantum Future Technologies Conference]</ref> In collaborations stemming from the gathering, Altman led a team of collaborators to submit a grant proposal for the development and deployment of a novel quantum communications prototype at PISCES. After correspondence with the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Office and its Office of the Chief Technologist, the team contributed an invited proposal to DARPA through its Quiness Macroscopic Quantum Communications initiative.<ref name=":0">[https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B99KWApna6GoX3JzZGMzbzNrMjg/view Astronaut Development and Deployment of a Secure Quantum Space Channel Prototype at the Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems].  University of Hawaii.</ref><ref>[http://www.darpa.mil/program/quiness DARPA Quiness Macroscopic Quantum Communications] darpa.mil (June 2012). Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. </ref><ref>[https://www.rt.com/usa/360022-darpa-teleportation-quantum-physics ‘Quantum teleportation’ breakthrough by DARPA-funded physicists]. RT International (2016-09-22).</ref><ref name=":Wired">[https://www.wired.com/2012/10/quantum-satellite-teleportation/ The Race to Bring Quantum Teleportation to Your World]. WIRED News (2018-01-11).</ref>

=== Astronaut Development and Deployment of a Secure Quantum Space Channel ===

The team's joint proposal was the first time the two leading European groups—Rupert Ursin, Deputy Director at the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, responsible for the first demonstration of quantum communications over a 144-km free-space optical path, and Paolo Villoresi, first to achieve quantum communications over an Earth-to-space transmission channel—joined with the fiber optics communications experience of NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Boeing's PhantomWorks, the continuous variable expertise of&nbsp;Quintessence Labs,<ref>[https://www.quintessencelabs.com/ Quantum Cybersecurity, Encryption Key Management]. QuintessenceLabs.</ref> and the&nbsp;lunar and astronaut training facilities of the&nbsp;Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems.<ref name=":282">[http://www.pacificspacecenter.com/ PISCES Hawaii: Pacific International Space Center for Education Systems]. Pacific Space Center (Accessed 2018-03-01).</ref>

The fully deployed network architecture called for satellites linked to intercontinental fiber optics, free-space, point-to-point laser ground stations, underwater blue-green lasers between US Navy submarines extending to Boeing unmanned aerial drones and high-altitude blimps—forming a comprehensive, globally linked macroscopic quantum teleportation network.<ref>[https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=6a3a61d577305f71d9be268925c4b201&tab=core&_cview=0 Quiness: Macroscopic Quantum Communications]. Federal Business Opportunities.</ref><ref>[https://www.fbo.gov/utils/view?id=02af51a7706a61a85cef2f304296c12f DARPA Broad Agency Announcement]. Quiness: Macroscopic Quantum Communications. Defense Sciences Office DARPA-BAA-12-42.</ref>

Satellite downlink to fiber-optic and free-space communications links called for routing through the PISCES next-generation astronaut training facility on Mauna Kea, where a free-space continuous variable quantum communications prototype would be installed and calibrated by an astronaut on analogue lunar terrain in homage to Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's Apollo astronaut placement of the Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment on Apollo 11.