Dispatch

Dispatch is an aerospace startup that develops autonomous reentry vehicles and uncrewed space stations designed to facilitate commercial microgravity manufacturing. The organization provides dedicated orbital infrastructure equipped with in-house power systems to produce complex materials impossible to manufacture on Earth, including advanced semiconductors, novel pharmaceuticals, and bioprinted organs. Backed by Y Combinator and primary partner Tom Blomfield, the two-employee enterprise emerged from stealth with $500,000 in seed funding to support its automated production model. To avoid the high costs associated with human-rated stations, the firm utilizes single-use heat shields and plans to launch a subscale reentry demonstration flight carrying a 30-kilogram payload in mid-2027. This will be followed by the deployment of a 100-kilowatt orbital manufacturing facility in late 2029. Dispatch was founded in 2025 by former Astranis engineers Payton Case and Andrew Mello.