Detect ship/platform in orbit

[SirSmuggler]

Is there any way to detect if/which ships/platforms are currently precent in orbit?

I might want to have some production on a planet (possibly Gleba) start only when a ship arraives, mainly to minimize spoilage.

I guess you could solve it by having the landing pad request something specific that the ship in question has and detect when that is present. But it seems cluncy...

[IsaacOscar]

Nope sadly, the requests are the only way to communicate between platforms and planets (and no way to communicate between platforms and other platforms, or planets and other planets).

[IsaacOscar]

You could also have the platform request something, and connect a circuit to a rocket silo and enable "read requests"

[SirSmuggler]

You could also have the platform request something, and connect a circuit to a rocket silo and enable "read requests"

This sounds promising, I'll experiment with that. Thank you!