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TAU Launches 3rd Nanosatellite into Space in Less than 2 Years
A new technological achievement for Tel Aviv University: in less than two years TAU launched three nanosatellites into space. The third, TAU-SAT3, was launched yesterday on SpaceX’s launch vehicle Falcon 9, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. According to the researchers, TAU-SAT3, developed at the Center for Nanosatellites of TAU’s Fleischman Faculty of Engineering, represents a scientific breakthrough, paving the way toward the demonstration of optical and quantum communication from space via nanosatellites.
The researchers said in a statement: “TAU leads Israel’s effort to create satellite communication channels based on optical and quantum technologies. To implement long-distance quantum communication over hundreds of kilometers or more we need to go into space. TAU-SAT3 is designed to pave the way toward demonstrating quantum communication via a quantum nanosatellite, to be built in the future at TAU.”
TAU Launches 3rd Nanosatellite into Space in Less than 2 Years
TAU launched its first Israeli nanosatellite designed to communicate from space with an optical ground station.
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