NASA is ready to take the next step in sending a Colorado company’s quantum technology into space.
The federal space agency awarded Infleqtion another $20 million to develop its Quantum Gravity Gradiometer Pathfinder, bringing the total to $40 million, Infleqtion announced Thursday. The next phase will focus on hardware development and testing.
The Quantum Gravity Gradiometer Pathfinder is a highly sensitive quantum sensor and would be the first of its kind in space. It’s a project led by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory along with Infleqtion to analyze slight shifts in Earth’s gravitational field and study what’s happening both on the surface of the planet and below it…