China launched the world's first quantum satellite

China has surpassed countries in the space race when this morning launched the first quantum satellite in the world named Mac Tu.

South China Morning Post reported that, at 1:40 pm today, the Mac Tuo satellite was launched using 2D Chinh Chinh missiles from the center of the Tu Tuyen satellite launch station in the Gobi desert, in the Inner Mongolia, northern China autonomous region. The Mac Tu satellite is the eight-year research result of quantum scientist Pan Jianwei and space engineer Wang Jianyu.

According to engineer Wang Jianyu, the head of the project, the quantum satellite Micius has an important mission to establish an information line between China and Europe that hackers cannot attack. Accordingly information will be encoded and transmitted to satellites as photons, theoretically cannot be stolen, thus ensuring the absolute safety of the information.

"Mac Tu satellite proved for the first time that quantum signaling on a global scale is possible. This is an important step to open the quantum Internet era in the future," said Professor Anton Zeilinger. currently teaching in Vienna, Austria.

The Mac Tu satellite was launched from the Liuquan Satellite Launch Center, Inner Mongolia, China.

This satellite was originally named QUESS (short for "quantum experiments at space scale" ), then shortened to QSS. During the study, the main researcher of Pan Jianwei always thought to find a more appropriate name and result, the name "Mac Tu" (English: Micius) was chosen.

Pan said this name not only matches the pioneering spirit of the project but also shows admiration for Chinese culture. More than 2,400 years ago, Mac Tu knew that light always traveled in a straight line and the material world was made up of molecules.

Pan and Wang's project started at the Shanghai Institute of Physical Science in 2008. They aspire to create a lighter-weight satellite than a SMART car and will "find a different universe than theory." of Einstein " , according to the South China Morning Post.

That's where "cats can live and die at the same time, where an amount of information can travel from one galaxy to another at a rate faster than the speed of light, where the Internet cannot be hacked. , and where a pocket computer can run faster than all the world's supercomputers combined. "

Satellite with the name of Tu Tu expresses admiration for Chinese culture.

However, the Chinese scientists' plan does not stop there but aims for a larger scale: quantum communication in space. If successful, quantum signaling technology will completely eliminate the 20-minute waiting period in communication between Mars and Earth.

At the same time, the project allows many small spacecraft to send photos and videos to planets a few years away from light without the need to mount giant antennas. It can also show us what's inside a black hole.

China's launch of the world's first quantum satellite has received acclaim from many scientists in Europe, the US, Russia, Canada and Japan, which have similar plans but are delayed because of many reason.