Bizarre question, under normal operations in real life after they fire all of the rockets and a rocket pod is it typical for them to jettison the rocket pod immediately or do they like to take that back to base 99% of the time to reuse it and save money.
Those launch pods do cost money, and supply may be limited. IRL, if you dump them without explicit prior permission, you need a good reason, like "an enemy was coming up behind me, and I needed all the speed I could get, in order to escape."
