This is my own personal take on some additional items and balance for Space Exploration. It addresses places I feel items are missing or balance needs tweaking. My philosophy here is that they should feel like natural additions to space exploration, nothing game breaking or that messes with balance too much.

Current additons

Bioplastic Manufacturing - Allows manufacturing of plastics from vitalic epoxy and a selection of other organic compounds.
Iridium Axe - +100% mining speed vs steel axe. For a Total of 300%
Added a 1x1 Miniaturized upgrade to each life support equipment. - Waiting on a discussion with the space exploration team.

Planned Additions

Tier 3 personal roboport - Larger range, more robots more charging
Combat variant of the jetpack. - Slower top speed but faster acceleration. Larger equipment grid space so heavier. Also uses power AND fuel. Drops from the sky if running out of power. These will have a 30% lower top speed and a 50% higher acceleration.
Antimatter personal power supply
XL space undergrounds - The jump from space belts to deep space belts seems sudden and with nothing in between. XL space belts use some of teh mid tier material products in construction and make an 8/10 unit variant of the space underground. Uses aeroframe/iridium based products to reinforce. Add a version behind T2 and T3 space science (probably material)
XL space underground pipes. Same as above
Worker Robot cargo size++ - Additional tech based on all the material science tiers. Increasing cost

Bioplastic Manufacturing

Adds an alternatice option to make "bio plastic" from organic components. This adds a midgame alternative source of plastics.

Iridium Axe

Think Steel axe but faster. 100% minig speed bonus on top of steel axe

Mini Life Support

Added a 1x1 Miniaturized upgrade to each life support equipment, Each one is 25% the effect of the full size one so 4 total will have the same effect, but they are slightly less power efficient. Each requires some additional technology and resources to miniaturize the life support equipment. Icon edits by Crystal Gear https://www.facebook.com/CrystalGearGames