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Re: launching sats... you were probably playing simulatneous movement before and using the "repeat orders" not a minister. With turn based games, manual launching of sats is the only way with planets. There is a very inefficient way to do it if you are willing to sacrifice a sat launching ship and take extra turns to launch them. Move the ship away from the planet farther than it can return in one turn, give the ship orders to pick up sats from the planet, move away far enough so that it can't return in one turn, move back to the planet, launch sats, repeat. This method keeps the orders unfinished in the order queue so that they can be repeated. I wouldn't bother. Sadly, even with this, occasionally ships doing such gathering will just get stuck and/or forget their orders.