no, they didn't; but they did redefine the definition of teleportation.<p>> Teleportation is the theoretical transfer of matter or energy from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them. ... [1]<p>if they teleported anything, it was information, not matter or energy.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleportation" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleportation</a>
tl;dr<p>“A team of researchers in China sent a photon from the ground to an orbiting satellite more than 300 miles above through a process known as quantum entanglement”<p>links from the article:<p>- <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608252/first-object-teleported-from-earth-to-orbit/" rel="nofollow">https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608252/first-object-telep...</a><p>- <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.00934" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.00934</a><p>imo, it’s far-fetched to call a photon an “object”.