Built by engineers from
Backed by
Y Combinator
Spark-1, built at full scale.
About one meter across. The segmented ablative heat shield is made in-house and was tested at full scale in the Mojave under rocket exhaust.
- Diameter
- about 1 m
- Heat shield
- segmented ablative
- Backshell
- riveted aluminum
- Payload
- up to 30 kg
- On orbit
- 5 to 180 days
Heat shields built in-house. 100x cheaper. Mach 20+ capable. Dispatch has validated its full-scale satellite heat shields in the Mojave using rocket exhaust to simulate reentry.
Dispatch is building the industrial capacity to support the next-generation of the space economy. Our inaugural mission is with Spark-1 and will scale to support the permanent industrialization of space.
The Mission
