Neighbouring surface ports

Semivivus

Semivivus
Currently on a mission to unlock all terraforming markets, I've stumbled upon these two planetary ports. Ozanne Installation and Zillig Base in the 38 Lyncis system are only ~400 km apart, which is close enough to make an SRV trip from one to the other. They're so close that it is possible to request a docking permission from both ports. I am always looking for new interesting stations in the Bubble, and this type of locality has just piqued my interest. I remember seeing closer albeit non-landable examples but never paid much attention otherwise. I reckon there are better pairs out there, I need to know!

Has anyone encountered other such examples of two or more planetary ports in close proximity they would like to share? Is there a hard cap to the maximum distance between persistent surface objects?

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CMDR Serra

CMDR Serra
Funnily enough, the rescue ship at Cann Relay and FC LOLA'S GAZE appear in the same instance for me.

It was a bit confusing to be denied docking from 5k away before I realised I had the wrong ship targeted.
 

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Vincent Serra said:
FC LOLA'S GAZE
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I don't want to know what that means.

Vincent Serra said:
Funnily enough, the rescue ship at Cann Relay and FC LOLA'S GAZE appear in the same instance for me.
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I've only read a couple of threads about multiple carriers in the same instance, but I've once witnessed a carrier parked ~860km from Mckenzie Relay in Cemiess. It was somewhere in the way of the station's orbit at the time. You can tell from the orrery how close a carrier is to the orbit of a station, but you can't tell how high it is above or below the orbital plane. Unfortunately, it isn't possible to keep jumping to the same body in hopes of getting a random spot say in the way of the station for it to collide with the carrier. That is because each unique carrier is limited to 3 fixed pre-generated parking spots per body, and there might be actual distance limits that exist to prevent contact.

I figure this will be a rather niche obsession, so I will report my own findings in this thread while I'm on a spree.
 
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This is max. zoom HIP 60953 ABC 7 b, unsure of the exact distance - but it should be quite close as well.
(remembered this place because navigating to Bottego Bastion via Planetary Map always was a bit tricky due to the overlapping Planetary Base and the Settlement)
 

AkenBosch

AkenBosch
That last one looks worth a visit. There are several known places like that scattered around the bubble (and who knows how many unknown), with some of them hosting rallies organized by the Elite Racers. The Wasat A 2 E from Ferguson Prospect to Elwood Camp has also been the stage for a Buckyball race a few years ago, and is still highly regarded as an event location, being also a stage of the recent 8WD SRV Endurance Rally Championship, hosted by CMDR BlackMaze of the above mentioned Elite Racers.
Terrorsidic is currently managing the time trial leaderboards of the same rally stages here:

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Semivivus

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AkenBosch said:
...Ferguson Prospect to Elwood Camp...
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An excellent pair that I will be adding to the final list. Others from that thread are either port-settlement or settlement-settlement pairs, which are far more ubiqutous.

AkenBosch said:
...(and who knows how many unknown)...
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Not for too long.

Ferguson Prospect and Elwood Camp (~50km apart), and Behring Point (~260km from FP) in the Wasat system.

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Agony_Aunt said:
Laughs in Planetary Circumnavigation Club.
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The point of this thread is to pinpoint the bodies with the closest two or more dockable planetary ports, not the furthest. 400km is a long enough distance for a casual non-masochistic player to cross in an SRV. Especially when the objective is to just get from point A to point B. But I understand the joke.
 

Semivivus

Semivivus
This time I present to you Y'all Youll Enterprise and Shosuke Port, ~160km apart. So far on my list, this is the closest pair of a planetary port (round city-like port) and a planetary outpost (everything else dockable); a distinction the game doesn't quite make. They occupy a planet with a radius of 813km 28 ls from the main star. Wuonanie system.

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