Nanosatellite experiments to enable future space-based QKD missions Robert Bedington, Xueliang Bai, Edward Truong-Cao, Yue Chuan Tan, Kadir Durak, Aitor Villar Zafra, James A Grieve, Daniel KL Oi and Alexander Ling EPJ Quantum Technol., 3 1 (2016) 12 Published online: 18 October 2016 DOI: 10.1140/epjqt/s40507-016-0051-7