Редактирование: Christopher Altman (раздел)

=== 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.