Reflect Orbital, Inc is an American privately held space technology company headquartered in Hawthorne, California.[1] Founded in 2021, the company designs and builds satellites with large-scale deployable mirrors to point sunlight onto Earth's surface.[2] The stated goal is to provide responsive lighting after dark and to increase the effective hours of solar energy production.[3] Investors in the company include venture capital firms such as Sequoia Capital and Lux Capital.
History
Reflect Orbital was founded in October 2021 by Ben Nowack and Tristan Semmelhack in Santa Monica, California. Nowack is a former aerospace engineer from SpaceX[4]