# Qubitrium Put a Quantum Encryption Box in Orbit. The Hard Part Is Just Starting.

- slug: qubitrium-put-a-quantum-encryption-box-in-orbit-the-hard-part-is-just-starting
- date: 2026-04-24
- category: Quantum Computing

GPS was military. When Clinton opened it to civilians in 2000, the US still owned the satellites. But the commercial ecosystem that grew around it — Garmin, u-blox, Trimble — is worth billions, and it is not American. The same transition is starting in quantum communication.

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