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Space Machines Company

Products: satellite-servicing. Risk band: Elevated   RobotRisk index 16.5/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 94th percentile of 118 defense space companies.

Analyst brief

The record consists of a single entry: loss of the Optimus-1 orbital servicing satellite following a communications failure, logged as a mission-loss event with severity 4. This is a single-event, program-level failure record with no associated injury, recall, or regulatory action. The index of 18.4 and 94.9th percentile place the company in the elevated band within defense-space, high standing on the strength of one high-severity mission-loss entry. No trajectory or pattern can be established from a single row.

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Incident log (1 unique incidents)

SevDateTypeLocationIncidentSource
S4 mission-loss Optimus-1 orbital servicing satellite lost after communications failure · Optimus-1 orbital servicing satellite psnews.com.au

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