{"id":1001310,"date":"2026-06-02T21:56:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T21:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1001310\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T21:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T21:56:18","slug":"europes-eagle-1-quantum-key-distribution-satellite-delayed-again-backers-defend-its-value-vs-post-quantum-cryptography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1001310\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe&#8217;s Eagle-1 quantum key distribution satellite delayed again; backers defend its value vs post-quantum cryptography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">LA PLATA, Maryland \u2014Europe\u2019s<strong> Eagle-1 quantum key distribution (QKD) satellite<\/strong> is facing fresh delays to its payload and will not be launched before late 2027 or early 2028, but program backers defended the project and said post-quantum cryptography (PQC) is no substitute for it for sensitive communications.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Eagle-1 is part of a larger <strong>EU Quantum Communications Infrastructure (EUQCI)<\/strong> program at the <strong>European Commission.<\/strong> The Commission is contributing part of the funding for Eagle-1 through its Horizon Europe and in-orbit demonstration program . . .<\/p>\n<p>To view the entire article, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spaceintelreport.com\/subscribe-to-space-intel-report\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">become a subscriber<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LA PLATA, Maryland \u2014Europe\u2019s Eagle-1 quantum key distribution (QKD) satellite is facing fresh delays to its payload and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1001311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[277865,2000,277866,277867,277868,299,5187,2557,277869,172769,1699,277870,34963,277871,277872],"class_list":["post-1001310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-eagle-1","tag-eu","tag-eu-quantum-communications-infrastructure","tag-eu-space-days-2026","tag-euqci","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-european-commission","tag-european-dg-defis","tag-european-space-agency-esa","tag-european-union","tag-quantum-key-distribution-qkd","tag-ses","tag-sitael","tag-tesat-spacecom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116682751167796658","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1001311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}