I have added this mod to an existing game and get the same problem. Also when i try to start a new i get the following message:
Couldn't find suitable position to put the player in the perimeter of 200 tiles from the point {0.0000000000, 0.0000000000}
I use a hole bunch of mods and i have uploaded a savegame with where i experience the bug
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qr3i9smrvpw6vsa/Taterjr_Space_Station_cantrun.zip?dl=0
if you try to start a new game with this modpack, you will also get the error, when starting a new game.
I have tried to turn off the Factorissimo2 mod, since i guessed that could be the problem, but that wasn't it. I haven't tried to play vanilla, with just this mod yet.
Besides that i'm on v0.16.51 of Factorio and playing on linux (But i doubt that is a problem with the linux version of factorio, but you never know)
I hope it helps.