Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-190.215.235.34-20170706221420/@comment-47205-20170707075658

The transfer beam is not one of the Ship Tools; it is, in practice, nothing more than a visual effect that you sometimes see, in particular when you beam down into an adventure.

If you mean that you didn't receive the abduction beam during the Space Stage tutorial missions, then - given that the beam is required for the completion of one such mission - that sounds like quite a bad glitch.