Please help with jettisoning cargo

[Aella Fess]

I have a problem... And I think I know how to deal with it but I'm afraid to do it without confirmation whether it'll work.
I have carrier and 2 ships on board. Exploration ship and mining ship. I wanted to try mining few thousand ly away from bubble. I don't have armory on the carrier so I cant buy limpets there. But I bought them in the bubble before departure so I have a steady supply to refuel my tritium by mining.
The problem is: I forgot to add surface scanner on mining ship so I cannot scan for tritium hotspots with it. I have surface on explorer and I'm willing to switch it between ships via outfitting. But can't do it because I'd loose all my limpets...
So my question is: would it work if I jettison all limpets near my carrier, then switch ship, add scanner to mining ship and return to scoop those limpets?
Pretty silly situation, I know, but I hope there is a way to solve it

 

[Factabulous]

No. They'd either despawn when you hit the limit on items, or expire as everything degrades if dropped in space. You can just store them in your FC using the transfer button (top right of the Cargo screen in the right panel). You could have filled your FC with limpets ...

 

[TobiasFuzz]

I already see you poor Fella scooping up the Tritium manually without limpets. Or you just drop into an icy ring randomly and mine there. Some Tritium will always be found.

Edit: Factabulous is right. You can store the limpets on the carrier

 

[Aella Fess]

No. They'd either despawn when you hit the limit on items, or expire as everything degrades if dropped in space. You can just store them in your FC using the transfer button (top right of the Cargo screen in the right panel). You could have filled your FC with limpets ...

omg, thank you so much!

 

[goemon]

if you have any cargo space on your explorer, keep one limpet in cargo. because depending on how many different commodities you have on your carrier the transfer menu can be a horror to find something to transfer back to ship from fc. i once ranted about it in the suggestion forum https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threa...y-transfer-menu-in-alphabetical-order.581425/ ... but having 1t of something in cargo makes transferring back from fc easy.