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Space
- Claim 1 of Boeing’s Granted Seeker Patent Covers Two Cameras That Don’t Move
- Electric Propulsion Spacecraft Patents, Explained: Hall Thrusters and CPC B64G 1/405
- Phased-Array Satellite Antenna Patents, Explained: What H04B7 Filings Actually Cover
- Patent Secrecy Orders, Explained: When a Spacecraft Invention Never Becomes Public
- Government Patent Rights Under Bayh-Dole: What NASA-Funded Inventions Actually Owe
- CPC Class B64G, Explained: How the Patent Office Classifies Spacecraft Inventions
- FAA Seeks Comment on Renewing Its Human Space Flight Crew and Participant Information Collection
- A New Collision-Risk Index Argues Operator-Centric Math Vastly Understates the Cost of Mega-Constellations
- FCC Will Make Satellite and Spectrum Licensees Attest Whether a Foreign Adversary Controls Them
- FAA Clears Wider Starship Airspace Closures at Boca Chica With a Finding of No Significant Impact
- The FAA Will Now Charge by the Pound: Commercial Launch and Reentry User Fees Take Effect in 2026
- The FCC's Quiet Sequel: A Comment Round on GSO Reference Links Will Decide Who Wins Spectrum Fights
- FCC Scraps 1990s EPFD Limits, Rewriting How GSO and NGSO Satellites Share Spectrum
- NASA Borrows Other Agencies' Environmental Shortcuts, and It Could Speed Up Missions
- The State Department Wants Industry in the Room When It Writes the Rules for Space Behavior
- How the FCC Translates a Global Spectrum Treaty Into US Rules, One Allocation at a Time
- FCC Refreshes a Years-Old Record to Open New Bands for In-Motion Satellite Terminals
- The FCC Admits It Has No Spectrum for 'Weird Space Stuff' and Proposes to Fix It
- FCC Reopens the GSO Reference Link, the Hidden Variable in Satellite Spectrum Sharing
Space & Defense
- Xplore's Pending Application Claims a Satellite That Map-Corrects Its Own Imagery in Orbit
- Mitsubishi Electric Granted a Patent on a Mega-Constellation Manager That Stages Altitude and Pass-Timing to Avoid Collisions
- MDA Space Application Claims a Coded Retroreflector System for Laser Ranging Between Spacecraft
- Claim 1: A Hall-Effect Thruster Patent That Cancels Its Own Torque
- Grant Watch: Steering a Rocket Plume With an Electric Field
- Grant Watch: Viasat's Patent on Knowing When a Dish Is Aimed Well Enough
- Crossover: A Patent for Tasking a Satellite Without the Operator Knowing Who You Are
- Claim 1: MDA's Patent on a SAR Constellation for Surveillance and Earth Observation
- Whitespace: The Quiet Patent Cluster Around Letting Satellites Kill Themselves
- Claim 1: The Direct-to-Cell Patent That Treats a Satellite as a Cell Tower
- Prior Art Check: How a Missile Finds a Moving Target in the Last Seconds
- Portfolio File: Airbus's Patent on the Slow Climb to Mission Orbit
- Claim 1: Lockheed's Emissive-Composite Patent and the Heat Problem Nobody Sees
- Claim 1: NASA's Robotic Gripper for Grabbing a Satellite That Was Never Built to Be Grabbed
- Grant Watch: Boeing's Leading-Edge Patent and Where the Heat Concentrates
- Claim 1: Boeing's Electric-Propulsion Patent Is About Bookkeeping, Not Thrust
- Grant Watch: SpaceX's One-Dimensional Antenna-Steering Trick
- Claim 1: A Snecma Module That Carries Both Electric and Solid Propulsion
- Claim 1: Northrop's Spacecraft-Servicing Patent and the Business of Refueling Orbit
- Grant Watch: Viasat's Wiring Trick for Big Phased Arrays
- Filing Trends: Who Was Building Electric Propulsion in 2020
- Claim 1: Firefly's Tap-Off Cycle Turns the Main Chamber Into Its Own Turbine Driver
- Claim 1: Aerojet's Patent on Welding Copper to Steel Without It Cracking
- Claim 1: Northrop's 2021 Servicing Patent Extends a Capture-and-Dispose Franchise
- Grant Watch: Viasat's Patent on Pouring Capacity Where the Demand Is
- Claim 1: ArianeGroup Patents How to Run the Engine, Not Just Build It
- Whitespace: Why So Few Players Patent Hybrid Rocket Engines
- Claim 1: Momentus Bets Its Bus on Microwave-Excited Plasma Propulsion
- Claim 1: MIT's Patent on Throwing Away Thrusters to Save Mass
- Claim 1: A CACI Patent That Makes Laser Comms Easier to Aim
- Claim 1: Xona's Patent for a GPS Alternative in Low Earth Orbit
- Grant Watch: Enpulsion's Ion Thruster Built for Smallsat Mass Production
- Claim 1: Navigating a Spacecraft by Watching Other Star Systems
- Crossover: When the Spacecraft Structure Is Also the Fuel Tank
- Claim 1: SpaceX's Hybrid Beamforming Splits the Work Between Chips and Software
- Claim 1: AST SpaceMobile's Patent for Shaping a Giant Antenna's Beam
- Claim 1: Blue Origin's Control Surfaces for Coming Back Through the Atmosphere
- Claim 1: Radian's Patent for the Spaceplane Almost Nobody Else Is Building
- Grant Watch: NASA's Featherweight Antenna on an Aerogel Skin
- Portfolio File: How Northrop Fenced Off On-Orbit Servicing One Continuation at a Time
- Claim 1: Astroscale's Satellite Built to Sneak Up on Other Satellites
- Claim 1: MIT's Patent for Building Satellites in Space With Robots
- Grant Watch: Raytheon Puts an Optical Phased Array on a Chip
- Claim 1: SpaceX's Patent for Knowing Exactly Where to Point
- Claim 1: An Air-Breathing Thruster That Scoops Its Fuel From the Sky
- Grant Watch: Lynk's Two-Beam Trick — One to Find You, One to Talk
- Filing Trends: By 2024, Electric Propulsion Belonged to the Specialists
- Claim 1: Astroscale's Patent for Cleaning Up More Than One Piece of Junk
- Claim 1: Viasat's Multi-Beam Array That Splits Its Elements Into Teams
- Claim 1: A Thruster That Runs on Concentrated Sunlight
- Grant Watch: Firehawk's 3D-Printed Reactor for a Safer Rocket Propellant
- Crossover: A Digitally Beamformed Feed That Serves Comms and Direction-Finding At Once
- Claim 1: Deorbiting With a Tether Instead of a Fuel Tank