Beyond Reach Labs

Beyond Reach Labs is a Y Combinator-backed company that space solar arrays that grow to the size of a football field in orbit. The company participated in the Winter 2026 batch of Y Combinator.

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.

Beyond Reach Labs was part of Y Combinator's Winter 2026 cohort, has a team of approximately 2 employees, and is actively operating.