[jrgd]

it feels like the core advantage over current information transportation is for inter planetary communication.

[monadic3]

The only benefit that quantum entanglement provides is the agreement of a key over a distance. Communication itself would be "normal", i.e. EM.

[NiceWayToDoIT]

I still do not understand, as they do not carry Qubits, but they use laser to transmit information, why not use the laser in the first place to transmit information?

[NiceWayToDoIT]

I would like to know what kind of interesting mind downvotes question?!

[jrgd]

couldn’t find a reference to laser in the article; where did you read this?

[joshuaissac]

Lasers are mentioned in the linked arXiv paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.00934