# 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. ---