--- title: Quantum Entanglement Used to Teleport Object to Space description: Scientists have successfully teleported an object from Earth to space for the first time using quantum entanglement. canonical: https://time.com/4854718/quantum-entanglement-teleport-space/ author: Melissa Chan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-12T17:30:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-31T11:07:21.115Z article:section: Science og:title: Scientists Just Teleported an Object From Earth Into Space og:description: It's the first time that was ever done og:url: https://time.com/4854718/quantum-entanglement-teleport-space/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc9bea0300d1e07c1/6988d54b0a4a22c5bf9cf033/jiuquan-micius-launch.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3840 og:image:height: 2160 og:image:alt: CHINA-JIUQUAN-QUANTUM SATELLITE-LAUNCH (CN) og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Scientists Just Teleported an Object From Earth Into Space twitter:description: It's the first time that was ever done twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc9bea0300d1e07c1/6988d54b0a4a22c5bf9cf033/jiuquan-micius-launch.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Scientists Just Teleported an Object Into Space for the First Time > Sponsored content. 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Jin Liwang—Xinhua/Getty Images  by [Melissa Chan](https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Jul 12, 2017 5:30 PM UTC Scientists have successfully teleported an object from Earth to space for the first time, paving the way for more ambitious and futuristic breakthroughs. A [team of researchers in China](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.00934.pdf) sent a photon from the ground to an orbiting satellite more than 300 miles above through a process known as quantum entanglement, [according](https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608252/first-object-teleported-from-earth-to-orbit/) to _MIT Technology Review_. It’s the farthest distance tested so far in teleportation experiments, the researchers said. Their work was published online on the open access site [arXiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.00934). For about a month, the scientists beamed up millions of photons from their ground station in Tibet to the low-orbiting satellite. They were successful in more than 900 cases. “This work establishes the first ground-to-satellite up-link for faithful and ultra-long-distance quantum teleportation, an essential step toward global-scale quantum Internet,” the team said in a statement, according to _MIT Technology Review_. The MIT-owned magazine described quantum entanglement as a “strange phenomenon” that occurs “when two quantum objects, such as photons, form at the same instant and point in space and so share the same existence.” “In technical terms, they are described by the same wave function,” it said. The latest development comes almost a year after physicists successfully conducted the [world’s first quantum teleportation](https://futurism.com/teleportation-could-possible-using-quantum-physics/) outside of a laboratory. 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