Gravity is an Invisible Constraint on Manufacturing.

Some of the most valuable materials we can make from perfect semiconductors, to novel pharmaceuticals, to 3D printed organs can only be manufactured in microgravity. Space unlocks an entirely new class of products impossible to create on Earth but the infrastructure to manufacture at scale in space and return the products to Earth doesn't exist yet.

We're Payton and Andrew. We spent 4 years together at Astranis building geostationary communications satellites. We know how to build hardware that survives the extreme environments of space. Now we're building the vehicles to bring it back.

We just got back from the Mojave Desert where we tested our first full-scale reentry heat shield, designed to protect a spacecraft returning from orbit at Mach 20+. We built it in an apartment for 100x cheaper than competitors, held it behind a rocket engine to simulate atmospheric reentry and it worked as designed! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRRwlnKFt3s

The Problem: Getting things back from space is harder and more expensive than sending them up.

Cheaper launch costs and new heavy launchers like Starship and New Glenn are driving a boom in space manufacturing. Pharmaceutical, semiconductor, and biotech companies are racing to produce in microgravity. But return is the bottleneck:

- NASA pays 2x more to bring cargo down from the ISS than to send it up

- Human-rated vehicles add massive overhead costing over $100,000/hr for astronaut time

- Return slots from the ISS are limited to a handful of Dragon missions per year, on

NASA's schedule, not yours

- The ISS is aging infrastructure with an uncertain future and no clear successor

Access to orbit is cheaper than ever. Return is the unsolved problem. That's where we come in.

What We're Building:

Phase 1: Reentry Vehicles (mid-2027 first flight)

Refurbishable, autonomous reentry vehicles designed for mass manufacturing. Customers manufacture products inside while in orbit. We return them to Earth, swap the heat shield, and fly again. No astronauts, no ISS, no 6-month wait. Dedicated missions on your schedule.

Phase 2: Uncrewed Space Stations

To scale space manufacturing, you need permanent infrastructure in orbit. Serviced by our reentry vehicles. We're building high-power uncrewed space stations designed from day one for lights-out manufacturing unburdened by human life support, serving as a shared utility grid so payloads can leverage massive power without carrying the mass and complexity of their own high power bus.

The ISS proved that manufacturing in microgravity works. But it was built for humans, and everything that rides on it reflects that in their cost, schedule, and complexity. The next generation of space infrastructure doesn't need to. Advancements in autonomy let us build cargo-only vehicles from the ground up: cheaper, faster, and scalable. The space economy needs its own industrial layer and we’re here to build it.

We'd love to hear from you! If you're building something that needs microgravity, dealt with reentry or thermal protection systems, or if you just have strong opinions about how space logistics should work - let's talk. https://dispatch.space