Can’t get a damaged ship out of my Inventory

[yusuku13]

So I’m a pretty new player. I found a damaged ship, claimed it, hopped into my working one figuring I’d sell the damaged one at a station, and I can’t select it since the game keeps telling me it’s damaged, and I can’t bring it up anywhere for repairs. How do I get this ship out of my inventory

[Mr. Bufferlow]

Unless you have a freighter with a teleporter on it, the only easy way to scrap it is to go to the anomaly. You should be able to call it there-even if it is broke.

Jump in/jump out to set a save and run to the teleporter in the anomaly and go to the current system station (probably any station). Scrap it in the back of the station and your working ride should show up.

[Djsstorm]

Yeah, you can't summon the ship to the space station if it is broken, but if you can hop in it to make it your current ship, then teleport to the space station, it will be there when you arrive at the station, then you can scrap it.

[Scyris]

Easy fix, go to the Anomaly, land in it, switch your ship, then use the teleporter inside there to warp to any station to salvage the ship. It'll auto switch to any other ship once you salvage it. You can also summon any other ship you have at anytime on a planet/station as long as it has enough fuel in the launch thrusters (for on planet), and at least the landing gear and pulse drive is repaired. The landing gear/pulse drive being repaired requirement is removed on the Anomaly, you can summon a completly busted ship there at will.

[Scyris]

Originally posted by gh0stwizard:

Pfff. That's nice news. Previously you could just summon any ship and it got fixed to fly for free at space station or anomaly.

To fix it and get rid off, the only way is summon it on your freighter. To get freighter just fly between stars, then a battle occurs, you win and get your first freighter for free. At least it was before.

If you're on planet and lost your working ship, then you have to do a quest to either repair broken ship or find out your working ship. Also if possible you may summon your working ship via quick menu.

If you exchanged your working ship on broken ship and this broken ship is only you have left, then you may repair it or ask for help, a rescue team will help you out. You just need to tell your coords. Enable screenshot mode via quick menu, then when you see at left bottom corner some symbols, make a screenshot via steam. This is your planet and star system coords. Then sit inside your ship and find two numbers separated by comma, this is your planet coords. Post this info here and wait for rescue team. Hopefully you are in starting galaxy or can name your galaxy, because if not... the only way is repair by yourself.

or just use the Anomaly a space station you normally get access to before the freighter stuff if you followed the main story line. Its a space station you can literally summon to you at anypoint while in space, very useful for dodging pirates too as you can just summon it then land in it to get rid of the pirates. Just make sure to land it in after the encounter gauge empties as it will save where you were on it. You can see this gauge in first person view it'll be where the planet is shown on the ships dashboard, and it'll be a round bar that drains, when it emptys you'll have a encounter which is usually either a merchant or pirates scanning your cargo to attack you for it, well unless you bribe them anyway. Summon the Anomaly second your contacted in case its pirates, if it is, talk to them tell them to screw off, then just boost into the anomaly, you'll be able to get into it before the pirates can finish warping into the system.

[Ridcully]

Once you load a save or move to a different system, you can summon a damaged spaceship anywhere (use the quick/x menu). No need for a freighter.
Repair the ship and fly to the space station to salvage/claim parts

[taniwhat]

Go to a space station, you can use the menu to swap ships there now. Swap to the damaged ship, dismantle it.