Patenting Space: Promoting Innovations And Patents For Exploring Our Final Frontier

Whether you're NASA Administrator nominee Jared Isaacman, Virgin Galactic Founder Richard Branson, Artemis mission specialist Christina Koch, or even fictional astronaut and self-proclaimed "space pirate" Mark Watney, setting out on our final frontier and exploring space requires the right technology. The technology associated with space exploration has come a long way from the once-cutting-edge systems that put Sputnik into orbit and allowed the Apollo 11 crew to land on the lunar surface. A nearly exponential surge in patent activity related to space exploration, particularly over the past decade and a half, has captured a snapshot of these developments. Along with these technological advances, ambitions are growing too. There is a desire to go bigger, faster and further in space exploration.