LOSP/D 01-5B

"It's not bad being stationed on this station. The shore leave here beats being crammed in a corvette."

- Anonymous

Low Orbit Suspended Platform/Defense No. 01-5B (abbreviated: LOSP/D 01-5B), colloquially referred to as One-Five-Bravo, was a geostationary, low-altitude, suspended  in orbit around. It was a component of the Low Exoatmospheric Defense Grid, a program which comprised 119 defensive skyhook platforms in orbit around Earth and acted as a complement to both the and the.

LOSP/D 01-5B was built in the first wave of the LEDG program, alongside twenty-eight other units, at the government-owned Walter Xavier Smithsson Orbital Yards. The contracted the super-conglomerate Traxus Heavy Industries to construct the skyhook stations. Traxus began constructing the unit on November 15th, 2473, though legal issues, namely a notable corporate scandal, slowed Traxus' operations, and the construction schedule was prolonged by nearly two months. The station was completed on January 2nd, 2475; it was christened one week later and was maneuvered into geostationary orbit on the twentieth day of the same month.