DevTracker: About Outposts

Outposts (the small stations with external docking bays) are only capable of servicing the needs of small and medium sized vessels. If you are in a larger ship such as the Imperial Clipper, you will need to dock at a normal station (a Coriolis or Orbis for example) since they have the facilities to accept the big ships.

If you look on the system map you can see that the icons for all the types of station are different, so you can easily identify outposts from the larger stations. A quick way of knowing what size your ship is, when you are sitting on the landing pad count the number of blast shields that fold down when you take off. If there are three shields, you are in a large sized ship and won't be able to dock with an outpost.