Steam engines and turbines do work in space. Neither the steam engine nor the steam turbine have any construction surface conditions, so they can be placed anywhere, even in space.

I was curious, and I looked at the prototype data https://github.com/wube/factorio-data/blob/d7accb4077ef7b000298d327e974f94467d39bb8/space-age/prototypes/entity/entities.lua#L791 but I can't work out why it doesn't let you flip it.
I don't want to cheat so I can't be bothered trying to work it ...

English locale files for TheFactoryMustGrow, with just one pass of proofreading applied! (Look, I do this stuff for free)

I love dissecting these types of images. The devs definitely do this on purpose to mess with us
I hope I didn't miss any other 'errors'!

What did you do?
1. This was done with a mod that gives wood a burnt result (ash).
2. I placed a burner inserter, which starts with a small amount of initial wood fuel inside of it.
3. I let the inserter move items until it ran out of fuel.

What happened?
When the initial wood fuel ran out, a ...

I've also experienced this issue on both Nauvis and Gleba with Space Age active [v2.0.55]. Enemy AI is sending unprovoked attack groups at random - ranging from one to several attacks per hour - as if I have Rampant installed, even though no nests are absorbing pollution. I have confirmed with ...