How to see what available ship types there are for ARS hacking?

[zoutzakje]

Now the tech menu's ARS tab (which is used to view and select what bonus type you want to unlock after hacking and capturing an ARS) displays even if no hacking has been done, so you can make a decision about whether you want to hack or not without savescumming (not that anyone would do that).
The tab still won't show if there were never AI-controlled ARS's on the planet, since then the planet has no bonus types to show.

This is great and all, but it doesn''t explain to me HOW I can view the ARS TAB without hacking. In one of my current games I have scouted the location of 2 ARS's, but I'm nowhere near ready yet to take those planets. Whenever I look at the tech menu I see nothing and on enemy worlds it is not possible to open the tech menu (for as far as I know). So I wonder, how do I get to see which possible 'hack' types there are available without actually having a science lab or something on that particular planet?
I have started all of these games before the patch though, so perhaps that's why I can't see it?

[keith.lamothe]

Get a science ship on the planet, pause, select it, click the ARS tab, think.

Unpause, get out of dodge

[zoutzakje]

ah I see, so I do have to get a science lab in. Inconvenient, but I guess that's the price to pay to see what available ship types there are. Suppose I just get in science lab, pause, think, then savescum to avoid threat (if any)

[Buttons840]

Get a science ship on the planet, pause, select it, click the ARS tab, think.

Unpause, get out of dodge

When do I get to choose my new technology?

[Hearteater]

Mark II Science Labs have cloaking, making them ideal for this role.

As for when you get to choose the new ship, you need to:
1) Finish hacking with a Ship Design Hacker in the system with an ARS while the AI still controls the system.  This take 10 minutes of the Ship Design Hacker being stationary.
2) Capture the system so you gain control of the Advanced Research Station.
3) Select one of the three ships on the ARS tab of the Advanced Research Station you just captured (or use any Science Lab in that system if the ARS gets destroyed before then).

[keith.lamothe]

Mark II Science Labs have cloaking, making them ideal for this role.

Huh, I accidentally gave them a purpose.  Look at that.

[zoutzakje]

hehe yeah, who would have thought they would ever get a purpose

[Nodor]

Mark II Science Labs have cloaking, making them ideal for this role.

Huh, I accidentally gave them a purpose.  Look at that.

Before this.. I had already given up building MK 1 stations .. as the hassle factor > resource costs.