Marshall Eubanks is CEO and a co-founder of Space Initiatives Inc, where he has led efforts to develop very small picospacecraft for use on the Moon and in deep space. Previously, while working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the U.S. Naval Observatory he helped to create measurement systems essential for the navigation of spacecraft and the operation of the Global Positioning System. Asteroid (6696) Eubanks is named in his honor, and in 024 he became a NIAC Fellow with a proposal to send swarms of picospacecraft to explore nearby star systems.