For those of you who were getting stuck on the hyperdrive thing if you took the pre-order ship:
Right before I quit out last night for the first time, I had bought a new ship from some guy in a space station. That was when the tutorial quest flipped back to the hyperdrive step since I had bailed on my pre-order ship which already had one installed. Upon logging into the game today, I got back into my new ship on the space station and used the L3 star system scanner, and it popped up a beacon on a planet I had not yet visited. Going there pointed me to an outpost on that planet which gave me the hyperdrive recipe. Leaving that planet and using the L3 star scanner again pointed me back to the second planet I had visited, back to an outpost I had already discovered, and the Gek there gave me the Antimatter recipe. So if you are stuck on this part of the tutorial due to the pre-order ship, try leaving the current planet you are on and going into space, and using the star system scanner to see if it finds any signals.