Dauntless · Systems

N 40° · W 105°

EST. 2024

Systems engineering
for things that fly, think, and ship.

Dauntless Systems is an independent engineering lab — currently a sample size of one — working on the parts of aerospace and AI infrastructure that don't get built when programs are too big to take risks and too small to pay attention.

STATUS · ACTIVE DEVELOPMENT11 PROJECTS IN FLIGHT4 DOMAINS · 1 OPERATOR

01⎯Selected work

01

Mars Satellite Architecture

Trade study

Architecture study for delivering useful orbital infrastructure to Mars on a faster, cheaper timeline.

aerospacespacecraftresearch
02

Hopping Planetary Rover

Prototype

Ballistic hopping rover with validated SpaceBok-style four-bar parallelogram kinematics for Mars and lunar surfaces.

aerospaceroboticsresearch
03

Design Graph

Prototype

A Neo4j-backed digital thread for effectivity-aware design traceability across spacecraft and hardware programs.

toolinginfraaerospace
04

LLM Self-Improvement Loop

Prototype

Rejection-sampling fine-tuning of Qwen3.6:35B-A3B on a single AMD V620, weights-mutating not prompt-tweaking.

AI/LLMtoolingresearch

02⎯Current focus

Every project here is in flight; the four below are where attention is going this month. The rest get touched as the work upstream forces them to move.

  • 01

    Mars satellite architecture

    Closing the customer story for the 2028 inaugural launch.

  • 02

    Hopping rover

    Phase 5 contact simulation and self-righting envelope.

  • 03

    Design Graph

    Splitting the public showcase from the private working graph.

  • 04

    Local LLM self-improvement

    Phase 1 — llama.cpp on ROCm with quantized KV cache.