I find This way of communication not very reliable, after a few mins at most the signal stops and you loose connection with the pilot.
Then you might lucky reconnect to the back channels to his pod, But after send a signal you don’t receive anything back only to loose connection again and see a floating corpse in space.
Of course not all is lost as you pick up the corpse and bring it back to your station to reprocess for that dank Blue Pill.