TL;DR: Beyond Reach Labs is a Y Combinator Winter 2026 startup Space solar arrays that grow to the size of a football field in orbit, currently active with a team of 5.
Space solar arrays that grow to the size of a football field in orbit
Last verified:
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 expensiv…
Built by LemStudio
Yes. Beyond Reach Labs was funded by Y Combinator in the Winter 2026 batch. 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 structu…
Beyond Reach Labs was part of Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch.
Beyond Reach Labs has a team of 5 people according to Y Combinator's directory.
Beyond Reach Labs is currently listed as Active with a team of 5 in Y Combinator's directory.
Loading interactive view…