Shubin Mining Facility SMCa-6

Shubin Mining Facility SMCa-6 is outpost on Calliope in the Stanton system. It sits at 6.0 degrees noerdlich latitude and 77.9 degrees longitude. You can quantum straight to it.

Day and night on Calliope

A full day on Calliope lasts 4 hours 35 minutes, and roughly half of that is daylight. In Stanton and Pyro every body lies in one plane with no axial tilt — so there are no seasons, and the daylight phase is the same length everywhere. The directory below works out in real time when the sun is up at Shubin Mining Facility SMCa-6.

Approach

The nearest quantum point on Calliope is Comm Array ST4-31. From there it is 67.6 km on the shortest route (great circle) or 67.6 km on a fixed compass heading of 80.9 degrees. At 250 m/s and 2 km altitude that works out to roughly 5 minutes of flight time. The great circle is shorter but needs constant correction; on the rhumb line you hold one heading.

Orbital markers

Distances from Shubin Mining Facility SMCa-6 to the six orbital markers. It works the other way round too: read those numbers off your HUD and you can work out exactly where you are.

Mining on Calliope

Ship mining on Calliope turns up: Iron, Ice, Hephaestanite, Quantanium. The deposits were gathered by players; CIG adjusts the rates with every patch.

Sun position now

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