is there any chance that you could make an alternate mod that disables the gear/inventory check so we dont have to dump everything anytime we want to use a rocket?

That doesn't seem easily doable, maybe some more experienced mod developer can make something more complicated to handle that. Sorry!

I've been trying to look into that and yeah, it's not a setting that it's exposed at the moment. I think a possible solution would be to stash the items in a separate LuaInventory that the silo won't check, and retrieve it later.

The game has a code path to allow inventory to be taken with you if cheat mode is enabled. (Or more specifically it ignores the inventory check)

Maybe a modding api request is in order to allow the mods to do the same.

If that happens I would probably make a separate mod for it.