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I had this bright idea that I'd put quality modules in the biolabs that build ag science packs on Gleba, to mitigate the spoilage losses, without having to deal with too much of the extra quality logistics. Then, all I'd need to do is have the rocket deliver 1000 ag packs, of whatever qualities happen to be available, and the platform would take them to Nauvis.

The requests on the Nauvis side and the platform schedule are pretty straightforward, but I can't figure out how get the Gleba rocket silo(s) to behave without manually clicking "Deliver cargo" every time my space platform arrives at Gleba.

Am I missing something, or am I supposed to wait until I have 1000 rare science packs before I deliver any of them to Nauvis?

In a word, no. You can't. Quality on agri packs is pretty much useless[*] until you scale extremely big I'm afraid. Or you send them up manually in mixed composition.

[*] Well you do get quality spoilage from them, which is useful for quality prod3 modules...

You can do it automatically by specifying a lower limit for a minimum payload. Just calculate how many of each quality science pack you have in X time (one round trip of your space platform) and set the minimum to that. Unfortunately that means you waste items on rockets, but all resources on Gleba are infinite anyways.