The Last Federation is a game in which you try to unite a number of races under a single federation, as an outside influencer you can manipulate the races in many ways. The races are all unique, in fact there are no 'humans' in this game, you play a 4 headed 'Hydral'. Other races are: Acutians - Capitalist Robots, Peltians - Space Ewoks, Boarians - Space Cattle, Thoraxians - Space Insects etc etc
All the races have different ways to manipulate them, different political structures and different approaches to combat.
http://www.arcengames.com/w/index.php/tlf-features
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXQ8D6gGxb8
After taking some serious structural damage in my last engagement I need to repair my Centaur. Thankfully you don't need to watch that in real time, instead I head off to seek more profit in Teladi space.
http://www.egosoft.com/games/x3ap/info_en.php
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5mm76u-Dps
I'm also a fan of boardgames and wanted to share this solitaire dice game where you manage your crew represented by a set of dice through a series of encounters dealt from a deck of cards.
The game originally appeared as a free Print & Play game which has been implemented in Tabletop simulator, but the first kickstarter added custom dice, extra spacecraft and a boss battle. The new kickstarter is promising more additions to the game and has just published a campaign mode.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tony-go/reissue-of-deep-space-d-6-and-new-mini-expansion
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkXnTgO8m6Q
In the last few hours we had the launch of Chandrayaan 2 to the moon, it'll take a couple of months to get there but India hopes to be the next country to land on the moon (slowly). SpaceX Starship continues to progress with a test firing, followed by unplanned thermal test, and a test flight possibly in the next few days.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba087WZHXZE
To quote from clickbait 'The answer might surprise you' - lots of references still say the mighty F-1 engine used on the Saturn V is the post powerful rocket motor ever, but, there have been more powerful motors, depending on how you define your question.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfMPgAQD420
After fixing the save file my space probes finally reach Venus, however an error in the navigation commands messes up one flypast. The second does make it into orbit and begins the long process of surveying the planet.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4awb1njn3Zs
Oh wait, no that cat is the neighbouring empire, well I need to secure my borders.
https://www.paradoxplaza.com/stellaris
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WPgZyN6Zrw
No matter how accurate your optics are there's a physical limit to how accurate an image can be made. To get finer details you need a larger aperture, at the ultimate limit there are ways to combine telescopes around the world to get resolution like it was a single large telescope the size of a planet.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRrrHVql9Jw