Game hangs when returning to Industrial Foothold mission area (~13 km out)

Hi, I’m reporting a consistent issue where the game completely hangs when returning to the “Engineering – Industrial Foothold” mission area. I am attaching a video showing the exact moment of the freeze.

I finished all mission objectives but didn’t go back to the terminal to officially complete it yet. I initially left the area using the Ion mining ship, but since it lacked the power to tow, I switched to the Sledge (hydrogen ship). I used the Sledge to tow one of the mission ships (shown in the attached image) back to my base.

The hang happens every time I try to fly back to the mission site to retrieve the remaining welder ship. As seen in the video, once I get within roughly 13 km of the mission GPS, the game freezes and becomes unresponsive. I have to manually close it using the Windows “Application not responding” prompt.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Start “Industrial Foothold” and complete the objectives (do not turn in at the terminal).
2. Move away from the site (past ~13 km).
3. Use a Sledge ship to tow one of the mission grids away from the area.
4. Fly back toward the mission GPS coordinates.
5. The game hangs/freezes at around the 13 km mark.

Specs:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600H
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU
• RAM: 64 GB
• App Version: 2.2.0.2002