32 Facts About Martine Rothblatt

Martine Aliana Rothblatt was born on October 10,1954 and is an American lawyer, author, entrepreneur, and transgender rights advocate.

Martine Rothblatt is influential in the field of aviation, particularly electric aviation, as well as with sustainable building.

Martine Rothblatt was the CEO of GeoStar and the creator of SiriusXM Satellite Radio.

Martine Rothblatt was the top earning CEO in the biopharmaceutical industry in 2018.

Martine Rothblatt was born 1954 into a Jewish family in Chicago, Illinois, to Rosa Lee and Hal Martine Rothblatt, a dentist.

Martine Rothblatt was raised in a suburb of San Diego, California.

Martine Rothblatt left college after two years and traveled throughout Europe, Turkey, Iran, Kenya, and the Seychelles.

Martine Rothblatt subsequently became an active member of the L5 Society and its Southern California affiliate, the Organization for the Advancement of Space Industrialization and Settlement.

Martine Rothblatt became a regular contributor on legal aspects of space colonization to the OASIS newsletter.

Martine Rothblatt served as a member of the Space Studies Institute board of trustees.

Martine Rothblatt left Geostar in 1990 to create both WorldSpace and Sirius Satellite Radio.

Martine Rothblatt was responsible for launching several communications satellite companies, including the first private international spacecom project, the first global satellite radio network, and the first non-geostationary satellite-to-car broadcasting system.

Martine Rothblatt helped pioneer airship internet services with her Sky Station project in 1997, together with Alexander Haig.

Martine Rothblatt led the International Bar Association's biopolitical project to develop a draft Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights for the United Nations.

Martine Rothblatt is a well-known voice for medical and pharmaceutical innovation.

In 2013, Martine Rothblatt was the highest-paid female CEO in America, earning $38 million.

In June 2022, Martine Rothblatt unveiled the world's most complex 3D printed object, a human lung scaffold, based on 44 trillion [voxel]s of data and comprising four thousand kilometers of capillaries and 200 million alveoli.

Martine Rothblatt is an airplane and helicopter pilot with night-vision goggle certification.

In 2018, Martine Rothblatt received the American Helicopter Museum and Education Center Annual Achievement Award for innovation in rotary-wing flight.

Martine Rothblatt began looking at electric helicopters as a way of reducing energy consumption and noise while reducing transportation time for the sensitive organs.

In September 2016, Martine Rothblatt teamed with Glen Dromgoole of Tier 1 Engineering and pilot Ric Webb of OC Helicopters to conduct the world's first electric-powered full-size helicopter flight at Los Alamitos Army Airfield.

On December 7,2018, Martine Rothblatt earned certification in the Guinness Book of World Records for the farthest distance traveled by an electric helicopter.

In October 2022, Martine Rothblatt piloted the historic first-ever electric helicopter flight between two airports, flying from Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport in Thermal, California, to Palm Springs International Airport.

In September 2018 Martine Rothblatt inaugurated the world's largest net zero office building site, called the Unisphere, containing 210,000 square feet of space in Silver Spring, Maryland, powered, heated and cooled completely from on-site sustainable energy technologies.

In 1982, Martine Rothblatt married Bina Aspen, a realtor from Compton, California.

Martine Rothblatt has since become a vocal advocate for transgender rights.

In 2004, Martine Rothblatt launched the Terasem Movement, a transhumanist school of thought focused on promoting joy, diversity, and the prospect of technological immortality via mind uploading and geoethical nanotechnology.

Martine Rothblatt contributed $258,000 to SpacePAC, a super PAC that supported her son, Gabriel, who was running as a Democrat in Florida's 8th congressional district but lost.

Martine Rothblatt has received many awards, including several honorary doctorate degrees.

Martine Rothblatt was officially awarded this on November 13,2019, at the 10:00am graduation ceremony.

In 2019 Martine Rothblatt was recognized as one of Business Insider's most powerful LGBTQ+ people in tech.

Also in 2019, Martine Rothblatt received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement presented by Awards Council member Sir Peter Jackson during the International Achievement Summit in New York City.