Station

Star system
Station distance
4,413 Ls
Planet
HIP 8830 ABC 1 b
Landing pad
Large
Station type
Surface Port

Station services
Commodity marketOutfittingRearmRefuelRepairShipyard

Black marketContactsFleet carrier administrationFleet carrier servicesFleet carrier vendorInterstellar factorsMaterial traderPower contactRedemption officeSearch and rescueTechnology brokerUniversal CartographicsVendorsWorkshop

BartenderConcourseCrew loungeFrontline SolutionsMissionsPioneer SuppliesTuningVista Genomics


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Colony
Wealth
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Government
Patronage
Allegiance
Empire
Minor faction

Station update
28 Oct 2024, 6:24pm
Location update
28 Oct 2024, 6:24pm
Market update
08 Feb 2024, 2:08pm
Shipyard update
Outfitting update
08 Feb 2024, 2:08pm

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George Smoot

George Fitzgerald Smoot III (born February 20, 1945) is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, Nobel laureate, and $1 million TV quiz show prize winner (Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?). He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006 for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer with John C. Mather that led to the "discovery of the black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation."

This work helped further the Big Bang theory of the universe using the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite. According to the Nobel Prize committee, "the COBE project can also be regarded as the starting point for cosmology as a precision science." Smoot donated his share of the Nobel Prize money, less travel costs, to a charitable foundation.



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