Jennifer Lopez leads commercial lunar payloads as the Director of Business Development, Commercial and Civil Space at Astrobotic Technology, Inc. – a space robotics and lunar logistics company that provides full service, end-to-end payload delivery to the Moon.
Prior to Astrobotic, Jennifer served as the Technology Lead in Commercial Innovation and Sponsored Programs with the International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory for almost 4 years, where she identified, developed, and fostered space-based R&D and breakthrough technological innovations. Research areas under her leadership included space systems, in- space manufacturing, robotics, AI and other emerging technologies aimed to maximize utilization of the ISS for terrestrial benefit and help pave the way toward commercialization in low Earth orbit and future orbiting platforms.
Jennifer serves on the RESOURCE (Resources for Exploration & Science of OUR Cosmic Environment) team, a project funded by NASA's Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI) to determine types of volatiles for in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) on the Moon. Jennifer also serves on the Advisory Council of the Physics & Astronomy Department at Johns Hopkins University. She is a Founding Member of the NASA Datanaut Corps program at NASA Headquarters and is a National Geographic Explorer.
Most recently Jennifer served as a member of the judging panel for NASA's 2022 Breakthrough, Innovative, and Game-changing (BIG) Idea Challenge.
