Aplicación YC de Beyond Reach Labs

Winter 2026Active

Beyond Reach Labs pasó por Y Combinator en el batch Winter 2026 como una empresa de Industrials. Abajo: qué hace la empresa, quién la fundó y su aplicación a YC, reconstruida pregunta por pregunta en el formulario real de YC.

Batch YC: Winter 2026
Industria: IndustrialsAviation and Space
Tamaño del equipo: 5
Estado: Active
Lanzado: 2026

Fundadores

Mitchell FogelsonFounder | CEO
Pele CollinsFounder | CTO

Lo que hace Beyond Reach Labs

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.

Aplicación YC de Beyond Reach Labs, reconstruida

Solicitud de Y Combinator

Beyond Reach Labs, batch Winter 2026. Las preguntas reales del formulario, respondidas con datos públicos.

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Company

Company name

Beyond Reach Labs

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Space solar arrays that grow in orbit

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We build solar panels designed specifically for space. Our panels launch about the size of a dining table but deploy in orbit to the size of a football field. The design lets us reach 10x longer solar arrays while keeping mass and launch volume low. This gives satellites much more power without the fragility and cost problems of today's large panels.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in New York, NY, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose New York because the team is here. Founders Mitch and Pele have strong personal and professional ties here, which makes recruiting and operations practical.

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Preguntas Frecuentes

¿Es esta la aplicación YC real de Beyond Reach Labs?

No. Y Combinator mantiene privadas las aplicaciones enviadas. Esta es una reconstrucción: las preguntas reales del formulario de YC, respondidas a partir de los datos públicos de Beyond Reach Labs (notas de lanzamiento, antecedentes de fundadores, descripción del producto). Muestra cómo una empresa como Beyond Reach Labs se presentaría a YC, no el texto que enviaron.

¿En qué batch de YC estuvo Beyond Reach Labs?

Beyond Reach Labs formó parte del batch Winter 2026 de Y Combinator.

¿Quién fundó Beyond Reach Labs?

Beyond Reach Labs fue fundado por Mitchell Fogelson, Pele Collins.

¿A qué se dedica Beyond Reach Labs?

Space solar arrays that grow to the size of a football field in orbit

¿Cómo leo la aplicación completa reconstruida?

Crea una cuenta gratuita de Round Funded. La versión completa de 26 respuestas de la aplicación de Beyond Reach Labs, y de cada otro batch de YC, está en YC Insights.