Crashed Satelite with Data Question?.

Landed on a planet today and found a crashed satelite. There was no sentry or anything just the wreckage. When I targeted it there was a pop up saying active data or something like that. I couldn't see anywhere were this data was going to or how to collect it I even drove over it with my cargo scoop out but still never got anything telling me I had collected it. In the end I left it as a bad job and now I am posting this asking what the proper procedure is?.

On another tack how hot does a planet have to be before it is too hot?. Mostly I land on icy rocks far from the system sun but yesterday found a high metallic planet as the first one after the usual asteroid belt. On checking the system map I saw that it was 770 kelvin converting to about 500 Celsius. Thinking this may be too hot for my Python I aborted the landing but the question remains, how hot is too hot in relation to the ship and buggy or doesn't it matter in the game?.
 
Just to add to what aRottonKomquat mentioned, you also need to enable "Firing Deploys Hardpoints" in the WEAPONS section of the CONTROLS option menu.

Once that's enabled just target the data point then press & hold your secondary fire button.


CMDR Andrew Reid
 
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On another tack how hot does a planet have to be before it is too hot?. Mostly I land on icy rocks far from the system sun but yesterday found a high metallic planet as the first one after the usual asteroid belt. On checking the system map I saw that it was 770 kelvin converting to about 500 Celsius. Thinking this may be too hot for my Python I aborted the landing but the question remains, how hot is too hot in relation to the ship and buggy or doesn't it matter in the game?.

There's no known limit to the surface temperature that your ship and SRV can withstand. The hottest planet I've landed on had a surface temperature of 1770K; I believe there may be a cut-off at 1811K (the melting point of iron, according to the game) above which planets are not landable. I'd love to hear of any landable planets which are hotter than that.

That said if a planet is particularly close to a hot star you can still take "normal" overheating damage from the star so be wary of that. Not an issue in the vast majority of planets tho.
 
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