One of the many benefits of having space stations in Earth orbit is that, since they provide a micro-gravity environment, they can perform activities that are simply impossible to carry out on Earth. This can be especially appealing to certain research institutions...

As your orbital outposts become larger, you’ll find that you need to spend more funds in order to keep everything running smoothly. If during the early stages of the game you opted for a space station design that favours the generation of research points, you can...

In a previous blogpost we discussed the details behind the tech tree, which allows players to purchase new types of modules and expand their capabilities by allowing them to deploy orbital outposts in higher orbits. In this blog post, we’ll cover the second type of...

The space station modules available in Space Station Designer have an associated ‘maintenance factor’, which is proportional to their complexities. The maintenance factor is represented by the following icon: Which can be found in the purchase screen: And in the...

Astronauts play a very important role in ‘Space Station Designer’, as they are the ones in charge of keeping the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) station functional and using their skills in order to increase the station’s output. In this blog post, I’m going to give an overview...

When players start a new campaign in Space Station Designer, they only have a handful of essential modules for the LEO station at their disposal and their options are rather limited. In order to be able to build other types of modules and to unlock more advanced...

As I have briefly mentioned in previous entries, Space Station Designer features a commercial goods market where players can trade the products manufactured in their orbital outposts in exchange for money. You can read more about the various commercial goods available...

In the previous entry we discussed the various recipes available for transforming raw materials ferried from Earth into commercial goods that can be exchanged for money in the market. In this blog post, I’m going to dive deeper into the details of the manufacturing...

In this blog post, I’m going to provide an overview of the manufacturing system in Space Station Designer. As I’ve described in the previous entry, players can manufacture goods in space that can then be ferried down to Earth and exchanged for money in the commercial...