Powering what comes next

Beyond Reach Labs is delivering a new era of space infrastructure and energy independence by enabling more power per launch to support high-power satellites, commercial space stations, orbital data centers and lunar power solutions.

002 FOUNDING TEAM

Building orbital power at scale

Founding team

Mitchell Fogelson, PhD

Co-Founder & CEO

PhD from Carnegie Mellon University. Industry and academic experience in both robotics and aerospace applications with expertise in design of mechanical meta-materials and mechanisms.

Pele Collins

Co-Founder & CTO

7 years at SpaceX leading the Dragon parachute systems team. Deep expertise in deployment mechanisms, reliability engineering, and human-rated space hardware.

Charles Gai

Founding Engineer

PhD from the University of Cambridge. Previously an engineer at SpaceX on the Launch Tower and Solar Array teams. Deep expertise in deployable structures and origami-inspired mechanisms.

Brandon Edelson

Head of Engineering

Previously Lead Propulsion Engineer at SpaceX, where he spent nearly 11 years developing propulsion systems for both Dragon and Starship. BS in Aerospace Engineering from USC.

Brian Jackson

Founding Software Engineer

PhD in nonlinear optimization and trajectory planning from Carnegie Mellon. Previously Senior Optimization Engineer at Albedo and Robotics Software Engineer at NVIDIA, building hardware-accelerated motion planning libraries for autonomous systems.

Advisory board

Tom Cooley, PhD

Technical Advisor

Former Chief Scientist of Space Vehicles Directorate and Principal Scientist leading AFRL In-space Servicing, Assembly & Manufacturing. Program Manager for the TacSat-3/ARTEMIS mission.

Zac Manchester, PhD