# Beyond Reach Labs

> Beyond Reach Labs is a New York space-hardware startup building ultra-light deployable solar arrays that pack down to the size of a dining table and unfold to the size of a football field in orbit, delivering roughly 10x more usable power per launch without adding mass or volume. Founded by former NASA researcher Mitchell Fogelson and ex-SpaceX parachute lead Pele Collins, the company grew out of NASA-funded research into kilometer-scale space structures and is targeting a 2027 in-space flight demonstration.

- **Founded:** 2023
- **Headquarters:** Brooklyn, New York, United States
- **Founders:** Mitchell Fogelson (CEO & Co-Founder), Pele Collins (CTO & Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** 5-9
- **Products:** Deployable Solar Arrays, Pop-Up Extending Truss (PETS), Hierarchical High-Expansion Ratio Deployable Structures (HERDS), Deployable Thermal Radiators
- **Notable:** Two patent-pending deployable-structure designs (PETS and HERDS), Over $175M in customer letters of intent, Raised a $10M seed round

## Products & services

- **Deployable Solar Arrays** — Ultra-light solar arrays that compress to dining-table size for launch and expand to football-field scale in orbit, delivering roughly 10x more usable power per launch without added mass or volume.
- **Pop-Up Extending Truss (PETS)** — A scissor-based truss architecture that compresses tightly for launch and expands via centripetal deployment in microgravity, achieving structural stiffness when extended.
- **Hierarchical High-Expansion Ratio Deployable Structures (HERDS)** — Deployable structural system designed to unfold kilometer-scale structures from a single rocket launch, the foundation of the company's core technology.
- **Deployable Thermal Radiators** — Deployable radiator structures for shedding heat in space, extending the same folding-structure technology to thermal management.

## Achievements

- Two patent-pending deployable-structure designs (PETS and HERDS)
- Over $175M in customer letters of intent
- Raised a $10M seed round
- Selected for Y Combinator Winter 2026 batch
- 2027 in-orbit flight demonstration scheduled
- Core technology validated through NASA NIAC-funded research and zero-gravity flight testing

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Closed a $10M seed round.
- **2026-01** — Joined Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch.
- **2026-01** — Reported $175M+ in customer letters of intent and a 2027 flight demo target.

## Links

- Website: https://beyondreachlabs.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/beyond-reach-labs-inc
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/beyondreachlabs

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Last updated: 2026-07-31