Quantum communications at ESA: TOWARDS a space experiment on the iss

International Astronautical Federation - 58th International Astronautical Congress 2007

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages 2732-2746

  Armengol, Josep Maria Perdigues ^a   Furch, Bernhard ^a   De Mato, Clovis Jacinto ^b   Minster, Olivier ^a   Cacciapuoti, Luigi ^a   Pfennigbauer, Martin ^c   Aspelmeyer, Markus ^d   Jennewein, Thomas ^e   Ursin, Rupert ^d   Schmitt Manderbach, Tobias ^f   Baister, Guy ^g   Rarity, John ^h   Leeb, Walter ⁱ   Barbieri, Cesare ^j   Weinfurter, Harald ^f   Zeilinger, Anton ^d,e  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^b ESA HQ   (France)

^c RIEGL LASER MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS GMBH   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^e ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^g Oerlikon Space ^*  (Switzerland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^j UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; MANNED SPACE FLIGHT; SPACE STATIONS; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

EUROPEAN; EUROPEAN RESEARCHES; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCIES; GROUND EXPERIMENTS; INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATIONS; PHYSICAL SCIENCES; QUANTUM COMMUNICATIONS; ROADMAP; SPACE EXPERIMENTS; SPACE PROGRAMMES; SPACE SYSTEMS; TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENTS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 54949116209     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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