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Monarch Quantum Selected to Deliver Integrated Photonics Quantum Light Engines™ for NASA's First Planned Space-Based Quantum Gravity Gradiometer
Monarch Quantum, Inc., a U.S.-based quantum photonics company specializing in integrated photonics systems for quantum computing, quantum sensing, and quantum communications, today announced its selection to deliver Quantum Light Engines™ for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Quantum Gravity Gradiometer Pathfinder (QGGPf) mission.
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