Company
A foundry for cislunar systems.
Martian Dynamics is a privately held systems house in Leander, Texas. We design the machines that make a second world usable — not the show, the infrastructure.
Leander, then vacuum.
The company sits on the Texas corridor between design studios and test stands. Chassis, engines, and buses are cut here. Dust chambers and night-simulation live next to the drafting table. We do not separate the drawing from the part.
Akhil Kolla founded the company as chief designer — the premise being that form on a spacecraft is a reliability problem, and that lunar dust is a load case, not a texture.
How we work
Four rules. They fit on a card.
01
Infrastructure, not spectacle
The hardware that matters is the hardware that still works on Tuesday. We do not design for the livestream.
02
Dust is a load case
Lunar regolith is not a texture. It is a mechanical, electrical, and human-factors problem. We start there.
03
Service in a suit
If two people cannot open it, inspect it, and close it again, it does not fly. Complexity belongs on the ground.
04
Texas, then vacuum
We qualify here — heat, dust, night-simulation, the stand — before we ask a vehicle to earn its keep off Earth.
Path
From a shop floor to a flight list.
2024
Founded
Martian Dynamics opens in Leander. A design studio and a machine shop in the same building.
2025
Mare chassis
First rolling prototype. Dust-chamber campaign against Apollo-sample abrasion data.
2026
Vector & Tether
Pathfinder engines on the stand. First Tether bus in the high bay.
2027
Surface demo
Mare mobility demonstration under a partner lander contract.
2028
First dedicated flight
Vector flies a dedicated smallsat. Tether demonstrates LEO-to-GEO transfer.
Leadership
Akhil Kolla
Co-founder & Chief Designer
I started Martian Dynamics because the hardware that will matter is not the rocket you watch on a livestream. It is the truck that still starts after fourteen days of night. It is the tug that arrives on time. It is the boring, load-bearing layer.
Work with us.
Agencies, primes, and operators. A technical briefing — mass, delta-v, dust, schedule.