Freezing when Loading in Large Grids at High Speeds in Atmo - SE2

When playing the story, I managed to destroy my H2 ship that I landed on top of the wrecked blue colored ship right after the weather station.

This prompted me to build a new H2 ship to progress through the mission, however every time I try to approach the space station above the weather station, my game freezes for a moment. Then all particle effects and time continues to progress, however the game does not recognize any user input and my grid is frozen in space, yet the GUI still says it is moving. Also good to note sounds ply up till the freeze, stop, and then continue once time and particles move again on screen.

This freezing also happened once when I was using a grasshopper to go get some ice from the ice mine before I crashed the H2 ship. Also note, I accidentally went way too high with the grasshopper as I flipped and "burned" incorrectly which sent me up. However, my guess is that I loaded in the crashed ship mentioned before while going about ~80m/s. It seems like moving under ~70m/s stops the issue from happening. Haven't tested this much though.

Also, Possibly related, SE2 is taking 24GB of ram on Medium settings, despite the recommended being High with 16GB of ram. There may be a memory leak somewhere or I may just be misunderstanding what is going on.