I’ve noticed this, too, in my hauler. It’s as though you’d hit an obstruction - but there’s nothing there.
Something similar happens occasionally when approaching a planet under pulse drive - I reach the outer atmosphere, and my ship just stops dead. I have to engage thrusters to get moving again.
I’ve found this works (fast thrust)…but sometimes I aim up away from the surface too. It breaks free and you continue on.
If they require that now then they made something more tedious that worked perfectly fine before. I checked my hotbar after I attacked the ships and there was no message; it’s dumb to disqualify us from reward if we attack too soon.
Found someone else suffering the same save/discovery problem - seems it could have something to do with the PS4 system ‘updates’ [what exactly are they updating so often?!] …? Here’s the video I found - YouTube
Its not game-breaking but really bugs my experience.
When a buy a new ship, it’s class always changes to C the next time I play. This is playing on a save begun after 1.38