It requires fuel, perhaps a new mixture of rocket fuel, or finally a real purpose for tons and tons of solid fuel.
It allows for randomly generated "missions" to launch requested resources. Maybe a new system assigns a monetary value to each resource and you can generate income and do some trading via launches and drops.
It can be re-purposed for long range artillery type strikes, load it up with capsules and pick a target, all capsules release spread over the target area and do there thing (possibly distractor and poison clouds only?) or load it with explosives and kaboom. Maybe it could be used to even launch the player to another section of the map.
