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Momentus

Products: orbital-transfer-vehicle. Risk band: Elevated   RobotRisk index 16.3/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 93th percentile of 118 defense space companies.

Analyst brief

The record contains two entries: a 2022 orbital transfer vehicle power malfunction following launch (severity 3) and a 2021 SEC settlement with Stable Road and Momentus over false claims (severity 3), both at equal severity. One entry is an operational malfunction and the other a regulatory enforcement action, giving the record a mixed regulator- and incident-driven character rather than a single type. This two-event record yields an index of 16.4, placing Momentus at the 94th percentile of the defense-space category in the elevated band. The record spans a technical failure and a disclosure/compliance matter roughly a year apart, showing two distinct failure types rather than repetition of one.

Entries by year and severity

012021 S3: 11212022 S3: 1122
S1S2S3S4S5

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malfunction over time vs category

regulatory over time vs category

Incident log (2 unique incidents)

SevDateTypeLocationIncidentSource
S306/14
2022
malfunction Momentus orbital transfer vehicle suffers power problem after launch · 1 vehicle (Vigoride) Spaceflight Now
S307/13
2021
regulatory Stable Road and Momentus reach SEC settlement over false claims SpaceNews

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