Elon Musk’s SpaceX has quietly registered the service trademark ‘Starfall’ through the tiny Polynesian kingdom of Tonga. The application was made on May 19th and recognised by the US Patent & Trademark Office on October 9th.

The filing covers launch, on-orbit & re-entry services, spaceflight travel, in-space manufacturing services, custom manufacturing and processing of pharmaceuticals. Key seems to be the provision of in-space manufacturing services, namely manufacturing in micro-gravity and the “hosting of payloads for others in a micro-gravity environment with commercial applications”.

It covers launch, on-orbit, and re-entry services, namely, transporting the payloads of others to, through, and from space; Spaceflight travel services for humans and objects

The document also talks about R&D in the fields of in-space manufacturing.

“Research and development of technology in the fields of in-space manufacturing, spaceflight, and space exploration; engineering services in the fields of in-space manufacturing, spaceflight, and space exploration; scientific research in the fields of in-space manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and biology; scientific and technological services, namely, scientific research and analysis of data in the fields of in-space manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and biology; aerial surveying services,” says the documentation.

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