Once you have collected a decent amount of all three data types, they can be downloaded into an asteroid id chip by using the research buttons associated with the data type you wish to download. 1 attached to a data bus on the ABDP the other attached to a Satellite Terminal connected to a satellite of the corresponding data type. To make efficient use of these, you will need 6, two for each data type. Data will need to be either inserted manually by way of data chips or via Wireless Transcievers. The purpose of this machine is to process all incoming data into asteroid ID chips for more efficient and richer mining excursions. The final piece in managing your data is the Astrobody Data Processor or ABDP. More information on the Observatory page. You can now program an asteroid id chip with the location of a desired mining asteroid. The Observatory will use 100 distance data to scan for nearby asteroids.

Take a data chip with distance data and insert it into the data bus on the Observatory and 'Store to Buffer'. Using the satellite id chip from earlier in the Satellite Terminal, you can connect and download the data onto a data chip, which looks like a little green thumbdrive.

Getting distance data early gives you an early start to asteroid mining. The Observatory is responsible for finding asteroids and programming asteroid id chips using distance data gathered from satellites. When you launch the rocket, the satellite will be deployed in orbit. Build your rocket, shift-click to bring up the rocket GUI, select the satellite bay and place the satellite in the slot. The second action should be to build a Satellite Bay into your rocket. These can be placed anywhere, and looks really cool when you have a wall of Satellite Terminals and Rocket Monitoring Systems. You will need a Satellite Terminal to retrieve the data from the satellite. Be sure to keep the satellite id chip handy and for good measure make a copy.īefore you can launch your satellite, there are two more actions which need to be taken. The Satellites page details the components you can put into the Satellite Assembling Machine and those components specify what function the satellite will serve or what data it will collect. Satellites are built in the Satellite Assembling Machine. The first satellite you should build/launch is one that gathers distance data. To locate other planetary bodies, you will need satellites to collect data.Ĭurrently, there are three types of data satellites can gather, Mass, Distance and Composition. However, before a rocket can mine an asteroid or harvest gas from a planet, one has to be found. Missions can be monitored from a rocket monitoring station. In Advanced Rocketry missions can be performed to collect ore or harvest gasses from gas giants and return them to your base. Missions are a useful undertaking to collect resources and explore.

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