Cosmonautica is an upcoming space trading game just announced by Chasing Carrots (Pressure). The Cosmonautica website is live, offering a developer blog on how the project was chosen and word they are seeking new testers for what they call the "pre-alpha" for the game. Here's word:

Cosmonautica is about space, trading and a crew from hell. We love trade/management-simulations and space-games like Elite II, Patrician or Transport Tycoon. But we also dig humor, characters and emergent stories. So we put in some personal touches like in the Sims.

So we got: Trade, Fight, Explore & Care. In a nifty little sandbox simulation in the stars. It’s currently in an early alpha stage.