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Roscosmos gears up for quantum communications experiment aboard orbital outpost

The space corporation is also planning under the Sfera project to carry out ‘Laser’ R&D work for laser data transmission, Director General Dmitry Rogozin revealed

MOSCOW, April 29. /TASS/. Russia’s State Space Corporation Roscosmos and the Russian Railways (RZD) railroad operator are set to conduct a joint experiment aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to test quantum communications, Roscosmos Chief Dmitry Rogozin told TASS on Friday.

"We will try to test technologies aboard the International Space Station that will allow us to get ahead of leading space powers. Together with RZD, we are planning to conduct one interesting experiment for quantum data transmission from board to board of the ISS and farther," Rogozin said.

The Roscosmos chief said he had held a meeting with RZD CEO Oleg Belozerov to agree on the start of this work.

"In addition, we are planning under the Sfera project approved by the government to carry out ‘Laser’ R&D work for laser data transmission," the Roscosmos chief explained.

Priorities

These tasks are useful and their results will be applied in creating a new Russian orbital cluster, the Roscosmos chief said.

"Today our priorities are to ensure the fulfillment of the defense procurement plan, replenish expendable materials used in the special military operation. Now all of our actions and thoughts are concentrated in this direction," Rogozin said.