Downlink! New Space Game Depicts Spacecraft Launches & Science

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Downlink! New Space Game Depicts Spacecraft Launches & Science







		The latest Xtronaut Enterprises table game will take players on a journey through the solar system, allowing them to play as one of the six international agencies that perform space missions for science.

		Called a downlink, the game encourages players to build rockets, build spaceships, build scientific instruments, or even do all three. And like real-life space missions, any choice a player makes will entail time and money restrictions.

		Advance orders are now available through the Game Kickstarter page, which runs from November 13 to December 15. The goal of the company is to earn at least $ 15,000.

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		"That [the game] is inspired by the way NASA runs the New Frontiers program, "said Dante Lauretta, a collaborator with Xtronaut, referring to the program that NASA uses to send spacecraft to the targets of the solar system." You can not go where you want; you have to go where [National Research Council] "Decadal Survey says where the priority science is," he told Space.com.

		Lauretta has personal experience with this process: she is the principal investigator of the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Browser), which is scheduled to arrive in Bennu on December 3. OSIRIS-REx is one of the missions of the New Frontier of NASA.

		Michael Lyon, in this project, works with Lauretta, whose experience in space law includesDennis Tito space tourism flight. on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in April 2001. (Tito paid $ 20 million for his eight-day flight to the International Space Station, through the Space Adventures company based in Virginia.) Lyon worked on the rules book of the game and in administrative matters, such as compliance with orders. , while Lauretta focused on game mechanics and validating science.





						


In the downlink, the players combine cards to go through the phases of the development of the space mission and, finally, to do science in distant worlds.

            						    Credit: Xtronaut Enterprises /Kick starter 




		The game follows a series of successes.

		This is the third board game for Xtronaut Enterprises. The past ones were Xtronaut: the game of solar system exploration (which has sold 10,000 copies to date and won a prize for Good Housekeeping board games) and last year Constellations: The game of stargazing and the night sky, which received the Mensa Select award. Both games were launched after the successful Kickstarter campaigns that exceeded their fundraising goals.

		While Xtronaut focuses on throwing payloads into space, Downlink highlights the following steps: it focuses on what happens when a player controls a spacecraft and its scientific instruments, working to achieve one of the three objectives (which could include planets, moons or dwarf planets).

		The first parts of the game are mainly focused on the launch of logistics, where players can compete or collaborate to take rockets and spaceships to space. But as missions evolve, players also have the opportunity to perform science in their objective worlds; an example could be to look for an underground ocean in an icy moon, using instruments that contribute with results to fields such as astrobiology and geology.

		"It's very interesting, and I've seen a lot of game tests," said Lauretta. "The level of strategy in the game is very high."

		Lauretta said that Xtronaut Enterprises is considering several other game concepts, including one that will follow the real-life science made by OSIRIS-REx after it reaches the asteroid Bennu. OSIRIS-REx must enter orbit around Bennu in early January 2019, make observations and measurements, and then attempt the landing to collect sample material in July 2020. It will return to Earth with its precious cargo of asteroid sample in September 2023.



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