China has launched the world’s first quantum communications satellite into orbit. The 600-plus-kilogram, better known as Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS) satellite, took off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gobi Desert at 1:40 AM local time on Tuesday on a 2-year mission. The QUESS satellite will help China perform unprecedented levels of experiments in quantum communication by sending entangled photons from the satellite to relay stations in China and Europe. China spent $101 Billion in quantum physics in 2015, up from $1.9 Billion in 2005.
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