Dispatch
Dispatch is a YC Spring 2026 (P26) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team of 2.
About Dispatch
Summary
Dispatch builds reusable reentry vehicles that carry payloads to orbit and return them to Earth, serving manufacturers of semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, and biological materials that require microgravity or space conditions to produce. Its first vehicle, Spark-1, handles payloads up to 30 kg and keeps them on orbit for up to 180 days, replacing the current dead end of having no practical return path for space-manufactured goods. Dispatch also plans autonomous orbital stations to host continuous manufacturing operations serviced by its reentry fleet.
Business model
Payload return missions booked per flight on Spark-1.
Go-to-market
Biotech, semiconductor, and pharma companies with space-manufactured materials contract missions directly; first flights are scheduled to begin mid-2027.
From the Y Combinator listing
Satellites for Manufacturing in Space
Dispatch is building refurbishable reentry vehicles that host and return payloads for companies making ultra-high-value materials (semiconductors, biotech, and pharma) that can only be manufactured in space. Right now, these companies have no practical way to manufacture and get their products back to Earth. We solve this bottleneck. We just returned from the Mojave Desert testing our first full-scale reentry heat shield designed to protect the satellite as it returns from space at Mach 20+, built in an apartment for 100x cheaper than competitors. To test, we held it behind a rocket engine to simulate the forces of atmospheric reentry. IT WORKED! Watch here - https://youtu.be/dhlQmnIoptg To scale, we anchor permanent infrastructure in orbit - building high power Autonomous Space Stations designed from day one for "lights-out" manufacturing serviced by the reentry vehicles.
Facts
- Industrials / Industrials -> Aviation and Space
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- 2
- Active
- Early
Founders (2)
- Andrew Mello
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