On Sept. 24, 2026, aerospace startup Beyond Reach Labs will formally open a 16,000-square-foot manufacturing and testing facility at Brooklyn’s Industry City complex in New York.
Founded by SpaceX veterans and backed by venture accelerator Y Combinator, the company is establishing dedicated hardware assembly lines to manufacture Flarewing, a high-density deployable solar array designed for orbital power systems.
Hardware Specifications and Kinematic Array Design
The Flarewing system addresses physical volume and power generation constraints that limit commercial space stations, high-power orbital computing hubs, and direct-to-device communications platforms.
The deployable array architecture features a compact stowed volume engineered to fit standard payload fairings during launch, folding down to the dimensions of a standard dining table. Once deployed in orbit, the mechanical articulation system unfurls the solar blanket structure to the length of a football field.
By optimizing structural mass and blanket packing density, Flarewing generates up to ten times more electrical power per launch vehicle than traditional rigid solar panel assemblies. The high power-to-mass ratio enables orbital data centers and private space station modules to operate megawatt-class payloads without requiring multiple dedicated launch campaigns for power infrastructure.
Orbital Power Market Context
The expansion of commercial low Earth orbit infrastructure has exposed severe electrical power limits across legacy space hardware platforms. While orbital computing clusters and commercial space stations require continuous high-wattage power generation, conventional rigid or accordion-style solar arrays exhaust launch vehicle fairing volume before meeting operational electrical loads.
Developing high-yield, compact deployables allows satellite operators and orbital station developers to scale onboard compute capability, active cooling loops, and high-throughput communications arrays.
Facility Opening Schedule
Beyond Reach Labs will initiate equipment integration and solar array deployment testing at its Brooklyn facility following the opening ceremony on Sept. 24, 2026. The new site will host cleanroom integration space and environmental testing equipment to qualify initial Flarewing flight units ahead of commercial demonstration launches.
