[Future Snake Eater]

Quantum teleportation has already been accomplished (instantaneous communication) in lab settings across a 100+ mile distance.

[cripplecreek]

Quantum teleportation has already been accomplished (instantaneous communication) in lab settings across a 100+ mile distance.

The implications for use in space communications are enormous. After all, even the moon is some 1.3 light seconds away which isn't a huge distance but beyond that, instant communication would be a big leap. Gotta figure, the mars rovers move a few feet at a time for a reason. Instant communications would radically change the way even our robotic missions are conducted. Such instant communications may have saved many of the lost mars missions.

The New Horizons craft is a touch over 3 hours and 7 light minutes out (one way)

[Boogieman]

I think you might be mistaken about that, since standard quantum teleportation experiments are not instantaneous at all.