The photon processor developed by the international team under the leadership of Philip Walter from the University of Vienna is now about 550 km from the ground.
The compact device was specially created to withstand the excessive conditions of the orbiting flight – sharp temperature changes, radiation and vibration. The preparation lasted only 11 working days and the Assembly took place at high sterility in the DLR center in Germany.
The main advantage of a quantum computer in space is the ability to process data on the satellite. This accelerates the analysis, reduces energy consumption and enables the operational detection of forest fires, for example.
Computer architecture is based on photons and uses analog parasitic and breaking principles for calculations.
Source: Ferra
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