Special projects

Every special project you send a rocket to on the Planetary View under the mod: what each costs to launch and what it gives back. The Trade projects (one per trade partner) come first, then the three the mod reworks, then the vanilla projects it leaves as shipped.

Projects the mod adds or reworks

Project	Launch payload	Reward	Round trip	Reappears
Trade (one per trade partner)	30  (60  for SpaceY)	The partner's Trade Good: Sponsor Research, raw Research, a tech or Breakthrough reveal, Colonists, resources, a Rocket, or terraforming - depends on the partner (Trading).	1 sol	10 sols, and each run costs 20% more Rare Metals than the last
Launch SETI Satellite	30 , 5	Flat $500 M Funding, one-off.	2 sols	25-50 sols
High-speed Comm Satellite	30 , 5 , 5 , 5	Flat +200 Research / Sol, permanent. Each completed satellite adds its own, so they stack.	2 sols	75-125 sols
Contract Exploration Access	10	Flat $500 M Funding, one-off.	2 sols	20-40 sols

Legend

• Launch fuel: every launch also costs the rocket's regular launch fuel - 70 for a standard Rocket, 50 with Advanced Martian Engines - on top of the payload shown. Detail: Fuel: what a launch really costs.
• Trade is up to 12 projects, one per trade partner. The Rare Metals price and the Trade Good depend on which partner it is; a trade is available from the start, sits at a fixed spot on the Planetary View wearing the partner's flag, and raises no spawn notification. Full per-sponsor list, delivery and escalation: Trading.
• Contract Exploration Access is story-gated. It stays disabled until the Pre-Founder event The Martian Trail switches it on (40% chance to be in a game's pool); lose that roll and it never appears.
• Flat rewards. The mod removes the vanilla per-use taper: SETI and the Comm Satellite give the same amount however many times you have run them.

Vanilla projects the mod leaves as shipped

These projects are unchanged by the mod in reward, payload and timing; they only inherit the map-wide +40% launch fuel like every rocket. Their rewards still diminish or stack with repeated use, still carry their vanilla disaster chances, and each terraforming project still needs its own technology and stops appearing once its parameter reaches 100% (see the notes below the table); this table shows the first-use figures.

Project	Launch payload	Outcome	Expedition	Reappears
Capture Meteors	60	Meteor storm at a random spot (it can threaten the colony); leaves Metals, Rare Metals and research Anomalies.	60 h	5-15 sols
Capture Ice Asteroids	100 , 15	+5% Water (about 60% chance of a Marsquake).	90 h	5-15 sols
Import Greenhouse Gases	$600 M, 30	+2% Atmosphere, +1% Temperature (about 40% chance of a Toxic Rain).	72 h	5-15 sols
Cloud Seeding	80 , 20	Triggers a clear-water Rain. No direct parameter change.	48 h	6-24 sols
Seed Vegetation	100 , 35	+5% Vegetation.	100 h	3-12 sols
Launch Space Mirror	100 , 35 , 15	+10% Temperature and +10% Solar-panel power (stacks). Rocket lost.	12 h	25-50 sols
Launch Magnetic Shield	80 , 20 , 15	Cuts per-Sol Atmosphere loss by 0.05% (stacks). Rocket lost.	60 h	25-50 sols
Melt the Polar Caps	400	+20% Water, +10% Atmosphere (halved per earlier completion). Rocket lost.	40 h	15-20 sols

Legend

• The seven terraforming projects (all but Capture Meteors) each need a technology before they appear and each stops appearing once its parameter reaches 100%; Capture Meteors needs no tech and never stops.
• Some rewards shrink or grow with repeated use (Melt the Polar Caps halves per earlier completion, Space Mirror and Magnetic Shield stack); this table shows the first-use figures.

Fuel: what a launch really costs

A rocket must be fuelled to its full launch fuel before it can lift off, exactly like an Earth trip. The mod raises every rocket's launch fuel by 40% map-wide, so a standard Rocket needs 70 Fuel to launch, dropping to 50 once Advanced Martian Engines is researched (base 50, +40% rule, then that tech's flat -20; SpaceY's Dragon is lower, Paradox's is +30 higher). Every special project pays this same launch fuel - none is cheaper or free:

• The mod's projects (Trade, SETI, Comm, Contract Exploration Access) carry no Fuel in their payload, so the launch fuel (70, or 50 with the tech) is their whole Fuel cost; the non-Fuel payload - Rare Metals for a trade, Metals or other resources for the rest - is loaded on top.
• The vanilla projects list Fuel in their payload, which counts toward the launch fuel rather than adding to it: if the payload lists fewer than the launch fuel, the rocket is topped up to the launch fuel; if it lists more (Melt the Polar Caps' 400), that larger figure is the cost.

The three reworked projects

SETI, the High-speed Comm Satellite and Contract Exploration Access each give a flat reward that never diminishes, run for a 2-sol round trip, and cost the payload in the table above with no Fuel in the payload (the rocket's regular launch fuel is the whole Fuel cost, non-Fuel resources loaded on top). The number the card previews at launch is always the number you receive.

The Comm Satellite card reads 200 Research / Sol: the reward is a permanent per-Sol boost, so the card names the "/ Sol" that the bare vanilla number left out.

Sources

Part of the Survive the Storm mod.