Public sessions cannot be joined after completion of a bounty

[CorerMaximus]

My squads on public and a few people joined me to fish and mine; after a while, we decided to start a bounty, and after finishing it, they left. However, people could no longer join my session. Sure- I can invite people, but unknown people/ randoms can no longer join my session.

[Maneykash]

I have a similar problem: After  the last bounty that i do solo,i cant set my session for public,even when im in orbiter.

[kidfortoday]

I'm having this issue at the Navigation panel from my ship. I select a mission, like Helene, Saturn. It finds a existing session. I join it. Then it de-selects Helene and I can't select another mission, and while this is happening everybody leaves the session.

[FrostDragoon]

This has to do with how the game prevents people from joining once mission progress has reached a certain point. For example, if you were in a Survival mission, randoms can't join after 5 minutes (first rotation). I'm guessing this is an oversight as a result of making it so you can queue bounties while still outside (and technically still "in mission").