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Rutherford Appleton LaboratoryTransporter-15
11/28/2025
SpeQtre is a 12U quantum key distribution technology demonstrator with an 8 cm telescope aperture and an entangled photon source, scheduled to fly on Transporter-14.
Speqtre will test distribution of quantum keys to a ground station run by RAL Space at the Chilbolton Observatory in Hampshire and to a ground station in Singapore.
RAL Space is developing an optical ground station at Chilbolton Observatory that will be used by Speqtre and to track and communicate with other satellites.
Speqtre will test the distribution of quantum keys to a ground station run by RAL Space at the Chilbolton Observatory in Hampshire and to a ground station in Singapore.
RAL Space is developing an optical ground station at the Chilbolton Observatory to be used by Speqtre and to track and communicate with other satellites.
RAL Space and SpeQtral are developing the Speqtre mission, with RAL Space leading the mission and providing the optical payload that will beam QKD signals to Earth.
On 2021-03-04 ISISPACE was selected by Science and Technology Facilities Council’s RAL Space to provide a 12-Unit CubeSat platform to support the SPEQTRE mission.