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Completion announcement · May 24, 2026

Customer discovery connects technical development with practical market needs and deployment pathways.

NASA logo.
NASA logo.

AstraQua completed the NASA I-Corps commercialization program, focused on aligning technical innovation with real operational problems. The company’s completion announcement identifies problem definition, customer understanding and deployment pathways as central themes.

Customer discovery complements engineering development by testing assumptions about the problems a technology should address and the people who would use it. For AstraQua, that work informs how its autonomy capabilities are described and developed for potential applications.

The milestone records completion of a commercialization program. It is separate from the company’s NASA SBIR technical research awards and does not represent a customer contract or a new funding announcement.

Explore AstraQua’s autonomy solutions for the company’s current technical focus.

Loay Elbasyouni is an award‑winning NASA engineer best known for helping fly the first helicopter on Mars as a lead engineer on the Ingenuity mission. His career spans breakthrough work in electrification, robotics, and autonomy across NASA, Blue Origin, and the automotive industry. As Founder and CEO of AstraQua, he is now advancing AI‑powered autonomous systems built to operate reliably where energy, connectivity, and conditions define success.