Sources & image credits.

The story is ambitious. Its foundations are specific. These sources document professional roles, mission milestones, research selections, and the imagery used throughout this site.

Engineering & mission record

• University of Louisville — Ingenuity involvement and engineering history (2021)
• Astrodyne TDI — electrical and power-electronics contribution
• University of Louisville — Blue Origin programs and AstraQua (2025)
• NASA/JPL — the completed 72-flight Ingenuity mission
• NASA/JPL — Ingenuity spacecraft and engineering reference

AstraQua: research and development

AstraQua’s wider mission is described by the company and presented here as work in development. The published NASA selection record concerns a specific predictive health-monitoring proposal. Selection is not presented as proof of every future platform capability or as agency endorsement.

• NASA — 2025 Phase I SBIR selection abstract archive (PDF)
• AstraQua — current company mission
• Kentucky — July 2026 SBIR/STTR matching-fund announcement

Photography & mission imagery

• Ingenuity clean-room portrait, PIA23151: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Original record.
• Ingenuity on Mars, PIA25881: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS. Enhanced-color image, 2023. Original record.
• Ingenuity flight model, PIA23882: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Original record.
• Loay’s contemporary portrait and oscilloscope photograph: Erric Wright. Reused from the existing personal website’s media library.
• Loay with Mars helicopter hardware and on stage at NYU Abu Dhabi: Loay Elbasyouni’s existing website archive. Photographer credits are not recorded in the public media metadata.

Mission imagery documents historical engineering work. NASA and other organizations referenced here do not endorse this website or AstraQua. See the JPL image use policy. Photographs are not offered as licensed press downloads.

Rocket engines, lunar propulsion & aircraft

The University of Louisville’s professional profile documents Loay’s electrical-systems design leadership across BE-4, BE-3U, and BE-7. Blue Origin’s engine reference identifies the associated New Glenn, Vulcan, and Blue Moon programs. The EVTOL Show’s speaker biography records his Senior Manager of Engine Avionics role.

Loay directly confirmed his contributions to TERN, solar-powered drone projects, and Global Observer while preparing this site. Those personal contribution statements are first-person career history. DARPA’s 2015 record independently identifies AeroVironment as a TERN Phase 2 prime contractor. The manufacturer’s flight announcement documents Global Observer’s hydrogen-powered flight tests. These program records do not independently document individual staff assignments. Specific solar-aircraft names and the scope of individual TERN subsystems have not been added without further evidence.

Orbital photography

BE-3U engine nozzles and Earth, photographed from New Glenn’s second stage during NG-2 on November 13, 2025. Credit: Blue Origin. Official image and download record. The program photograph illustrates the engine family; it is not a photograph of Loay or a claim of participation in that specific flight.

AstraSense · Phase II update

The October 15, 2026 AstraQua company announcement supplied by Loay Elbasyouni reports a $1,274,990 NASA SBIR Phase II contract. The contract advances aircraft integration and health-informed reasoning for AstraSense. The earlier NASA Phase I source remains a separate historical record; a public NASA Phase II contract link has not yet been independently verified here.