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Named partners in the EP250702a research collaboration include The University of Hong Kong, the National Astronomical Observatories of China, Anhui Normal University, Sun Yat-sen University, and the University of Science and Technology of China.
A 2022 paper by Pan Jianwei and collaborators at CAS and the University of Science and Technology of China describes a first step of three or five small QKD satellites with masses under 100 kg to be placed in sun-synchronous orbits at altitudes of 800 km.
CAS and the University of Science and Technology of China collaborated on the Jinan-1 satellite launched in 2022 on a Lijian-1 rocket operated by a CAS spinoff.
A smaller Chinese-designed satellite developed by teams including the University of Science and Technology of China began operations in low Earth orbit in July for real-time quantum key distribution experiments.