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[Gord Green]

For the first time, scientists have successfully teleported a photon from the ground to a satellite in orbit.

It's been 20 years since quantum scientists successfully teleported a photon over 10 miles, proving that quantum entanglement — a process that Albert Einstein called "spooky action at a distance" — was possible.

The very unnatural phenomenon occurs when two quantum objects, such as photons, share a wave function. Since they come into existence at the exact same time and place, they share the same identity, even when separated. What happens to one happens to the other — wherever it exists.
It marks the first time an object has been teleported from our planet into space.

And, theoretically, the sky isn't the limit. Photons are fragile; when they interact with matter on Earth and in Earth's atmosphere, they lose entanglement. But in the vacuum of space, they can extend infinitely.

And while the process won't exactly succeed in making Captain Kirk demolecularize on the Starship Enterprise and remolecularize on a planet below, it has the potential nonetheless to change the world as we know it. Quantum teleportation is seen as the basis for unimaginably high-speed communication and foolproof cryptography. Since the two objects are not twins but actually the same object, what happens to one happens instantaneously to the other.

Beam that up, Scottie.

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/07/11/space-breakthrough-scientists-teleport-photon-from-earth-to-orbit.html