For landing pad requests, change 'Logistical storage' to 'Orbital storage'

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For landing pad requests, change 'Logistical storage' to 'Orbital storage'

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TL;DR
If you hover over a request on a landing pad, one of the things in the tooltip is a number labelled 'Logistical storage'. This number is actually how many of that item are available for request from orbiting space platforms, and the label should be changed to better reflect that, something like 'Orbital storage' or 'Available in orbit'.

What?
The TL;DR pretty much covers it.

Why?
The current label is misleading. That same label, 'Logistical storage', shows up in various places inside the logistics networks, and there it always means the total number of that item available for request in the network, i.e. in storage, provider, and buffer chests. And this would be a perfectly logical value to display in the context of a landing pad: the pad is a member of the logistics network, where it acts as a passive provider. As such, the fact that that number is actually something else entirely is very confusing.
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