Beyond Reach Labs
Space solar arrays that grow to the size of a football field in orbit
At Beyond Reach Labs we are building solar panels for Space that grow from the size of a dining table to a football field in orbit. Mitch and Pele met 13 years ago as freshmen at UPenn studying mechanical engineering. Mitch recently got his PhD at Carnegie Mellon working with NASA on kilometer-scale deployable structures, and Pele spent seven years at SpaceX leading Dragon parachute engineering, safely returning astronauts from space. The collective satellites today use around 20MW, roughly the output of a datacenter on earth, but by 2030 there is a demand for over 10GW, a 500x increase, largely driven by orbital datacenters, space stations, and lunar outposts. If you want more power, your only option is to launch larger solar panels, which quickly become fragile or impractically expensive. As a result, power constraints already determine whether missions or industries can exist at all. But at Beyond Reach Labs we have introduced a new class of deployable solar panels giving satellites 10x more usable power without increasing launch mass or volume. This works because our patented deployable design changes geometry in space, allowing for us to reach 10x longer while remaining rigid.
- Website
- beyondreachlabs.com
- City
- New York City
- Country
- United States
- YC batch
- Winter 2026
- Team
- 15 people
- Stage
- Early stage
- AI-native
- No
- Hiring
- Open roles
Open roles at Beyond Reach Labs (8)
Their careers page- Build EngineerProduction · New York City
- Head of ProductionProduction · New York City
- Manufacturing EngineerProduction · New York City
- Senior Development Test EngineerEngineering · New York City
- Senior Mechanical EngineerEngineering · New York City
- Strategy and Growth LeadSales · New York City
- Development Test EngineerEngineering · New York City
- Mechanical EngineerEngineering · New York City
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