Beyond Reach Labs GTM brain

Beyond Reach Labs develops deployable solar arrays for spacecraft and operators planning power-intensive orbital infrastructure.

category

Deployable space solar arrays

market profile

  • text: Spacecraft power is limited by the tradeoff between array size, stiffness, launch volume and mass.
  • text: Higher-power satellites, orbital data centers and stations create potential demand for larger deployable power systems.

personas

  • title: Spacecraft chief engineer
    pains:
    • Large arrays must fit launch envelopes and remain stiff enough for pointing and control
    • Deployment mechanism reliability must be demonstrated before flight
  • title: Space mission or program manager
    pains:
    • Power budgets constrain payload capability
    • New hardware must fit mission schedules and qualification requirements
  • title: Orbital infrastructure technical lead
    pains:
    • Stations and orbital data centers need much more power than conventional small spacecraft
    • Scaling power without excessive launches is a core design constraint

icp

  • text: Satellite manufacturers and mission operators designing high-power spacecraft buses.
  • text: Developers of commercial space stations, orbital data centers and lunar power infrastructure planning future missions.

message pillars

  • text: Deliver scalable power with compact launch packaging.
  • text: Offer configurations for different spacecraft power needs.
  • text: Address the structural constraints of large arrays.
  • text: Engage customers on mission-specific requirements.

objections

  • objection: Will a novel deployment system survive qualification and flight?
    response: Request test data, qualification plans and mission-specific reliability evidence; do not assume flight heritage.
  • objection: Will the array fit our bus and launch envelope?
    response: Compare required power, stowed envelope and dynamics against the published Flarewing configurations and request the specification sheet.
  • objection: A proven supplier already serves our mission.
    response: Compare delivered power, mass, stiffness, readiness and schedule against established arrays for the specific mission.

competitors

  • name: Redwire
    website: https://rdw.com/newsroom/redwire-roll-out-solar-arrays-successfully-deployed-on-first-commercial-geo-satellite-for-maxars-ovzon-3-mission/
    why: ROSA deployable arrays compete for spacecraft power and have flight heritage.
  • name: Rocket Lab
    website: https://rocketlabcorp.com/space-systems/solar/substrates-and-panels/
    why: STARRAY offers configurable satellite solar arrays.
  • name: ExoTerra Resource
    why: NASA lists its deployable flexible solar arrays among spacecraft power options.

keywords

  • deployable solar array spacecraft
  • satellite solar array supplier
  • high power satellite solar panels
  • orbital data center power
  • space solar array launch volume
  • spacecraft solar array deployment

voice

  • Aspirational and technical
  • Mission-oriented
  • Specification-led

signals

  • text: A spacecraft program announces a higher-power payload or bus design and seeks solar array suppliers.
  • text: An orbital station or data center developer begins defining power and launch requirements.

hiring

  • Strategy and Growth Lead

pricing

model: unknown

motion

sales_led

channels

  • space industry press
  • LinkedIn
  • direct partnerships

confidence

medium

Founders

  • name: Mitchell Fogelson
    title: Founder/CEO
    role: CEO
    bio: Hey, my name is Mitch Fogelson. I earned my PhD at CMU, working with NASA on the design, simulation, and optimization of kilometer-scale deployable space structures. I have published in the top robotics and aerospace conferences and journals, and recieved the Editor Choice Best Paper Award from ASME JMD 2023. Beyond Reach Labs is building space megastructures to be deployed from a single rocket launch, accelerating new space capabilities.
  • name: Pele Collins
    title: Founder/CTO
    role: CTO
    bio: I have been working on some of the hardest technical challenges for almost a decade. I spent 6 years as SpaceX leading the engineering and production teams for the parachutes and between that also worked as the Plasma-Facing-Components Technical team lead at Commonwealth Fusion Systems. Now as co-founder of Beyond Reach Labs, we are currently working to enable space megastructures to be deployed from a single rocket launch and to accelerate the design of deployable space systems.

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