Quantum cameras could remake space-based intelligence

Can quantum physics enable better, cheaper, faster satellite photos? In a month or two, a startup will test a “quantum camera” aboard an orbital telescope. If it works, it could slash the cost of missile defenses and give smaller NATO allies and partners spy-satellite capabilities that were once exclusive to major powers.Funded in part by NASA and DARPA, the Boston-based Diffraqtion is testing a radically different way to make images from photons.You might think that the cameras on t