Beyond Reach Labs banks $10M seed for satellite solar arrays, opens Brooklyn plant
What's the deal? Beyond Reach Labs, a startup building hardware to deploy large satellite solar arrays, has raised a $10M seed round led by InterlagosDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →. TerraForge Capital, Off-Piste CapitalDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, Y Combinator, and Augur VC also joined.
What's the endgame? Spaceflight is limited by size, weight, and power constraints, and as operators design bigger spacecraft — from commercial stations to in-orbit data centres — their solar arrays have grown unwieldy. Beyond Reach's patented deployer stretches 100m long yet flat-packs into a standard launch fairing.
Founded in 2023 on a NASA grant for large-scale space structures, the company narrowed its focus to solar arrays during Y Combinator's Winter 2026 cohort.
Why now? Demand spiked after the company demoed its tech at Y Combinator in March 2026. Since then, it has signed $342.6M in letters of intent and started paid pilots, according to chief executive officer Mitchell Fogelson.
Scaling up: Beyond Reach opened a 16,000sq ft facility in Brooklyn, New York, in July 2026 to build hardware at scale, targeting 10-plus units a day by the end of 2027. It aims to have its system flight-qualified by the end of 2026.
Chief technology officer and cofounder Pele Collins said the patented designs "all fundamentally" solve "how to get something to be super long and not like a floppy noodle."
What's next? The long-term vision runs beyond power to other deployable products — radiators, structures, and infrastructure that could reach the Moon. "A lot of things in space get better as they get bigger," Fogelson said, adding the company plans to "become the architects for next-generation, large space systems."
The signal: At $10M, the round sits in the 96th percentile of all-time US energy seed deals, a sign investors see room in space power hardware. It lands as the sector chases larger spacecraft that need more energy than current arrays can supply.
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