Access to space is a theme that, in recent decades, has been totally guided by governments; the aerospace industry increasingly promotes a new market, driven by large companies, startups and investors. This study aims to analyze the innovation capacity in this new market, observing the patent documents on this topic, according to specific search criteria, using the Orbit Intelligence base, we retrieved 16,593 patent documents, where we can observe an increasing behavior until 1993, 1998-2001 and after 2012. Facts like the construction of the International Space Station and the great interest of billionaires like Sir Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk in the creation of their personal space flight industry that already have their Startup operations as SpaceX and Blue Origin on the market. It was found that most of the patent documents on cosmonautics deposited in the last 10 years are related to satellites and were deposited in China.