11 – 19 Oct 2025
11 – 19 Oct 2025
SU Conservatory Amphitheatre
The Stellenbosch Science Café is an initiative of Stellenbosch University’s Faculty of Science that encourages public discussions on scientific issues.
South Africa and China have successfully established the world’s longest intercontinental ultra-secure quantum satellite link, spanning 12,900 km. Using the Chinese quantum microsatellite Jinan-1, launched into low Earth orbit, this milestone marks the first-ever quantum satellite communication link established in the Southern Hemisphere. Come and listen to the physicists who made it happen.
With Dr Yaseera Ismail (experimental physicist, Department of Physics, Stellenbosch University), Prof. Francesco Petruccione (Director of the National Institute for Theoretical and Computational Sciences (NITheCS), and professor of quantum computing in the School for Data Science, Stellenbosch University)
Supported by Stellenbosch University
