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Starship Operators
スターシップ・オペレーターズ
2005 · TV series · 30 min episodes · 1 season
Created by Ryo Mizuno
For the 73rd class of cadets of the Defense University of the small planet Kibi, a maiden voyage on the new warship Amaterasu is a fitting event just before graduation. As they are returning home, however, they are shocked to hear news of a declaration of war by the aggressive Kingdom of Henrietta against Kibi. When the Kibi government surrenders without a struggle, the cadets decide to fight back using the Amaterasu, with funding from the Galaxy News Network. The only stipulation? Exclusive airing rights to the action and good ratings. So, the cadets find themselves the "stars" of their own reality show.
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Adding couple space related yet quite plausible anime/manga series:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Girls - basically space flight marketing for highschoolers created in cooperation with JAXA - has a pretty good description of using a biosuit
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Brothers_(manga) - a near future "so you want to be an astronaut, eh? " story - very realistic description of what you need to do before actually going to space (38 volumes/99 anime episodes)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Operators - a space opera that has quite minimal super science and a lot of hard physics - lasers vs overheating, detection/stealth in space (and the lack thereof), signal propagation issues, how to turn big ships quickly enough to use thrusters/fire axial weapons, using neutrino detectors to spot enemy warships based on neutrinos from their nuclear reactors
Various UC Gundam series - pretty accurate description of O'Neil Island 3 space colonies, mass drivers, orbital infrastructure in general - zero g only ships & stations