Those danged Glitches! First of all. If you save, and something happens later in the game to your station. Every single one of your saves takes that damage.
The hitbox on the ship is too big causing you to get hit when the meteor hasn't even touched you.
Missiles have a much smaller hitbox requiring them to be on top of the meteor before detonation causing the ship to get hit even if the missile is in front of the ship.
between starting out is hard as nails the other constraints and constantly loosing all of your resources repairing meteor strike damage keeping you from getting the anti meteor cannon it is dang near impossible to get anywhere.
That aside, its a great game, it just has some major balance issues.