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Quantum sensing for NASA science missions

C. Mercer, Erica N. Montbach, S. Christe, Robert M. Connerton, Denise A. Podolski, M. P. Robinson, Mario R. Perez

EPJ Quantum Technology, 2025

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Abstract

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) develops a broad range of technologies to support space-based quantum sensing and communications, uses the space environment to study fundamental quantum processes to advance our knowledge of physics, and develops algorithms to attack complex science problems that might be solved using quantum computing. This paper describes quantum sensors that NASA has flown on space missions, investments that NASA is making to develop quantum sensors, and possible approaches to employ quantum sensing to study the attributes of distant stars and planets, the Sun, Earth, and fundamental properties of matter.

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