When you need to call down the thunder to deal with those pesky biters, launch a rocket with an ion cannon into orbit and show the bugs who's boss.
NEW +3 technologies: Area Fire and Ion Cannon Mk2
There is a bug with Space Exploration with the Assembly Machine 3 (but not Assembly Machine 2) that's limiting the amount of ingredients it can accept to 8. Removing this mod brings this back up to 255.
In data updates, there seems to be some legacy code from when vanilla assemblers had an ingredient limit - it was set to 8 so that they could craft the more advanced recipes from this mod (presumably).
That is no longer required, since all vanilla assemblers are uncapped now.
If you want to keep it, add a check to make sure that a limit even exists for the entity in question, as well as a check to make sure if it's not already above 8.