Dispatch

Satellites for manufacturing in space

Y CombinatorSpring 2026ActiveIndustrialsAviation and SpaceManufacturingAerospaceAdvanced Materials

What they do

Problem

Space manufacturing companies lack a practical way to return ultra-high-value products from orbit back to Earth.

Solution

Dispatch builds refurbishable satellite reentry vehicles with heat-shielded payload hosting that can safely bring manufactured goods back from space.

Who it's for

Companies manufacturing ultra-high-value materials in space such as semiconductor, biotech, and pharmaceutical firms.

Founders

Payton Case

Founder

Co-founder & CEO at Dispatch | Building satellites for in space manufacturing | Enjoys long walks in space Formerly Astranis office of the CTO engineer driving everything from spacecraft architecture, to production, to their most critical mission operations. https://x.com/ngmxyz/status/1867769725415305593?s=19

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Andrew Mello

Founder

Co-founder & CTO at Dispatch | Let's have an industrial revolution in space I've worked at Apple on AirPods, at Amazon on warehouse automation, at Zoox on convincing Toyotas that someone is driving when they really aren't, and at Astranis leading the Avionics team through multiple generations of satellite designs.