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ispace

Products: Lunar lander. Risk band: Elevated   RobotRisk index 29.6/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 80th percentile of 6 space robotics companies.

Analyst brief

The record shows two mission-loss events, both lunar lander crashes, at severity 4 each: HAKUTO-R Mission 1 in 2023 and Mission 2 (Resilience) in 2025, both on landing attempts. Two failures across two attempted landings constitute a repeated outcome at the same mission phase, not a single anomaly. The 80th percentile and elevated band reflect this pattern of consecutive landing-attempt losses within a small operating history. Both entries are mission-outcome events reported through press and agency disclosure rather than regulatory enforcement.

Entries by year and severity

012023 S4: 11232025 S4: 1125
S1S2S3S4S5

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Yearly entries vs category average

mission-loss over time vs category

Incident log (2 unique incidents)

SevDateTypeLocationIncidentSource
S406/05
2025 · ~19:17 UTC
mission-loss Mare Frigoris, MoonHAKUTO-R Mission 2 (Resilience) lander crashes on second lunar landing attempt · 1 lander, total loss NASA
S404/25
2023 · 16:40 UTC
mission-loss Atlas crater, MoonHAKUTO-R Mission 1 lander crashes into Moon · 1 lander, total loss ispace

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