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TL;DR

I want to be able to send/recieve cicruit signals from/to orbitting space platforms.

What?

Add a building/option to existing building so we can send signals to orbiting space plaforms to be used for the logic on them.
A bit like the current radar allows sending signals to other places on the planet but then to all orbitting space platforms.

Why?

This allows the automation of spaceships by using interrupts to gather stuff when its needed. If you dont need the same item all the time you now cannot really control that in a proper way.
Currently the only way to do this is sending specific weird items into space that are not available anywhere else on the planet and then use the existence of lack of certain items on the space platform to trigger logic. This is really annoying.

For example nauvis needs bioflux and science from gleba, now i dont always need the science but sometimes i need a lot.
Currently my ship just needs to fly back and forth all the time between the 2 planets because if either 1 of those resources is depleted its not good. I cannot use that same ship to also collect stuff from vulcanus sometimes when it is not needed.
If i can send signals from and to the spaceship i can determine what is needed on the planet and send a signal to trigger the right set of interrupts to collect the needed materials automated.

Its an automation game i just want to automate stuff.