Beyond Reach Labs
Beyond Reach Labs is a space technology company based in New York City, NY, USA[2] that develops deployable solar arrays for orbital use[1]. Founded in 2026, the company participated in Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch[3] and operates with a team of 5[4]. The company was founded by Mitch and Pele, who met as freshmen at the University of Pennsylvania studying mechanical engineering[5]. Mitch holds a PhD from Carnegie Mellon and worked with NASA on kilometer-scale deployable structures[5], while Pele spent seven years at SpaceX leading Dragon parachute engineering[5]. Beyond Reach Labs designs solar panels that expand from the size of a dining table to a football field in orbit[5], providing satellites with increased power capacity without additional launch mass or volume[5].
About
- 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 rema[5]
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