[Spoilers] what are these and how to get to them?

[Alucard †]

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I noticed every planet has these smaller versions of the big Unknown Sattelite orbiting around them. I thought maybe you can visit these once you unlock the gates.

But no they are just there i "completed" the game by unlocking all gates and activating the sattelite and these still are inacessible and never even acknowledged/explained.

[Marck]

I have never seen the Unknown Satellite anywhere else than next to the solar system's sun. I'd say that those shown in your screenshots are graphical glitches. Or is it always that same one Unknown Satellite, just seen from different perspectives while traveling from one planet to another?

[Alucard †]

Originally posted by Marck:

I have never seen the Unknown Satellite anywhere else than next to the solar system's sun. I'd say that those shown in your screenshots are graphical glitches. Or is it always that same one Unknown Satellite, just seen from different perspectives while traveling from one planet to another?

Those are different ones.
They are always in same fixed positon from each of the larger planets.

The actual Unknown Sattelite looks slightly different in the Orbit view and is still where it should be.

[Marck]

Originally posted by ⎛ Alucard ⎞ ✟:

I noticed every planet has these smaller versions of the big Unknown Sattelite orbiting around them.

Originally posted by ⎛ Alucard ⎞ ✟:

They are always in same fixed positon from each of the larger planets.

Are they at a fixed position or orbiting? Which planets actually have them?

Again, I have no idea what they are and how you possibly could have got them. It would be really nice to know if anybody else had ever seen something like this in Astroneer, I still believe that this is a graphical glitch.

[Alucard †]

Originally posted by Marck:

Originally posted by ⎛ Alucard ⎞ ✟:

I noticed every planet has these smaller versions of the big Unknown Sattelite orbiting around them.

Originally posted by ⎛ Alucard ⎞ ✟:

They are always in same fixed positon from each of the larger planets.

Are they at a fixed position or orbiting? Which planets actually have them?

Again, I have no idea what they are and how you possibly could have got them. It would be really nice to know if anybody else had ever seen something like this in Astroneer, I still believe that this is a graphical glitch.

All planets have them (except Calidor this time while i was recording or perhaps i just couldn't find it)

Anyways here is the vid it will explain much clearer what i meant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM-Vjq-HaQg

I even included shots where these weird sattelites are in same frame as the actual Unknown Satellite.

[Dirtyshadow]

My best guess your looking at a developers work around to make the Platform visible on the surface of the planets... since the "orbital plane" and the planets are rendered differently.

Like how games will use low poly or skyboxes to render a mountain while its far away until your get closer replacing it with higher polygone versions as you get closer.

[Alucard †]

Originally posted by Dirtyshadow:

My best guess your looking at a developers work around to make the Platform visible on the surface of the planets... since the "orbital plane" and the planets are rendered differently.

Like how games will use low poly or skyboxes to render a mountain while its far away until your get closer replacing it with higher polygone versions as you get closer.

Oh maybe.

Funny enough i never was able to see the unknown sattelite from the surface of a planet / moon.

And some of these seem to be in really wrong angles.

[Marck]

I found some of those "ghost satellites" in my copy of the game, too, now that I was looking for them. However, I could not find one for each planet. I spotted them also for moons; for example, I found one for Novus but not for Vesania.

They are indeed smaller replicas of the actual Unidentified Satellite, with some panels missing or being invisible. I could tell because I was able to see stuff on them that I have placed on the Unidentified Satellite, like a shuttle and rail posts.

There used to be an effect where beacons placed on a planet were being replicated in space. I guess this might be a similar glitch, perhaps related to something like what Dirtyshadow describes.

I think we can be pretty sure that these objects are not actually part of the game, and that you are not supposed to "visit" them.

[Alucard †]

Hmm.
Mystery solved then
Thanks.