Dispatch

YC company profile

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.

• YC batch: Spring 2026
• Founded: 2025
• Team size: 4
• Location: San Francisco
• Country: US
• Status: Active
• Industry: Industrials
• Stage: Early
• Tags: Hard Tech
• YC partner: Tom Blomfield

Founders

Payton Case — Founder/CEO

Co-founder & CEO at Dispatch | Building satellites for in space manufacturing

Formerly Astranis office of the CTO engineer driving everything from spacecraft architecture, to production, to their most critical mission operations.

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Source: Y Combinator · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.