Mitchell Fogelson, PhD
Co-Founder & CEOPhD from Carnegie Mellon University. Industry and academic experience in both robotics and aerospace applications with expertise in design of mechanical meta-materials and mechanisms.
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.
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MEET THE TEAM
Building orbital power at scale
Pele Collins
Co-Founder & CTO7 years at SpaceX leading the Dragon parachute systems team. Deep expertise in deployment mechanisms, reliability engineering, and human-rated space hardware.
Charles Gai
Founding EngineerPhD 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 EngineeringPreviously 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 EngineerPhD 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.
Britney Lee
Mechanical EngineerMechanical engineer with a BS from Stanford and an MA in Design Products from the Royal College of Art. Developed hardware and materials for climate solutions at Oxford University and the Stanford Precourt Institute for Energy, and led design and manufacturing programs on Apple's desktop team and at hardware startups like BrewBird.
Evan Burger
Mechanical Engineer6 years at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory as a Senior Space Instrument Mechanical Engineer. Led the design, build, and test of instruments that fly on NASA and U.S. government space missions, from concept through flight qualification and delivery.
Advisory board
Tom Cooley, PhD
Technical AdvisorFormer 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
Technical AdvisorAssistant Professor in the Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics at MIT and Principal Investigator of the Robotic Exploration Lab (REx Lab).
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BACKERS & SUPPORTERS
Supported by leaders in science and space
