Kestrel
Light industrial hauler
- Mass
- 62 t
- Thrust
- 1.2 MN
- Crew
- 1–3
- Cargo
- 180 m³
One pilot, two berths, and enough cargo volume to make a living between moons. The first hull in the game, and the one every system is tested against.
News
patch · 9/16/2026
Orbital stations, and docking under your own control
Approach, match velocity, dock, and walk out into the station. No transition screen at any point in that sequence.
patch · 9/14/2026A new launcher, and a new installer
The installer now only installs the launcher, and the launcher downloads the game wherever you tell it to. Updates are staged and verified before anything is replaced, so an interrupted update leaves a game that still runs.
patch · 9/13/2026Planetary approach and generated terrain
Flight from orbit to a landing site is continuous. No transition screen, no loading, and the terrain under you is a pure function of the seed.
status · 9/12/2026Snapshots are deltas as of protocol 5
Outbound traffic from a node fell by 16 to 25 times. That was the prerequisite for widening the ghost band.