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Acta Astronautica

Quantum communications at ESA: Towards a space experiment on the ISS

Josep Maria Perdigués Armengol, Bernhard Furch, Clovis Jacinto de Matos, Olivier Minster, L. Cacciapuoti, Martin Pfennigbauer, Markus Aspelmeyer, Thomas D. Jennewein, Rupert Ursin, T. Schmitt-Manderbach, Guy C. Baister, John Rarity, Walter R. Leeb, C. Barbieri, Harald Weinfurter, Anton Zeilinger

Published Mar 4, 2008• 70 citations
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10.1016/j.actaastro.2007.12.039

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