Recognition announcement · June 25, 2026
The publisher’s business recognition channel profiles AstraQua’s founder and CEO.
LA Times Studios featured AstraQua founder and CEO Loay Elbasyouni in its Aerospace & Defense Visionary recognition channel. Elbasyouni’s public announcement identifies his inclusion in the 2026 Defense & Aerospace Industry Visionaries.
The recognition highlights an engineering career spanning aerospace, electrification and autonomous systems. Elbasyouni helped develop NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter and later led rocket-engine avionics at Blue Origin. Those earlier career contributions are distinct from AstraQua’s own product development.
At AstraQua, his work focuses on intelligent autonomous machines that can understand their surroundings, reason about their own condition and coordinate across connected or resource-limited environments.
The feature is part of LA Times Studios’ business recognition coverage. Read the publisher’s profile.