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before teleportation experiments are ready to move out of the laboratory. A
further requirement for all experiments is time synchronization, to nanosec-
onds for key exchange and picoseconds for teleportation schemes.
Acknowledgments
This chapter presents work supported by the European Space Agency un-
der ESTEC/Contract No. 16441/02/NL/SFe Quantum Communications in
Space.
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