pretty good game, both design and concept-wise. I spent almost 30mins roaming about. Anyway, you should allow creation of warp gates, that is the ship can place a gate at a planet or portion of space it has already visited and warp back to it if need be. This can add a good strategy factor to the game.
Also I would like to see some data on my ping so as to know the lag possibilities when playing with many other players.