Tour - Probes
Summary
There are nine different classes of probes on board.
Additional Information
| Location | Deck 8 - Equipment Storage | |
| Description | There are nine different classes of probes, which vary in sensor types, power, and performance ratings. The spacecraft frame of a probe consists of molded duranium-tritanium and pressure-bonded lufium boronate, with sensor windows of triple layered transparent aluminum. With a warhead attached, a probe becomes a photon torpedo. The standard equipment of all nine types of probes are instruments to detect and analyze all normal EM and subspace bands, organic and inorganic chemical compounds, atmospheric constituents, and mechanical force properties. All nine types are capable of surviving a powered atmospheric entry, but only three are specially designed for aerial maneuvering and soft landing. These can also be used for spatial burying. Many probes can be real-time controlled and piloted from a starship to investigate an environment dangerous, hostile or otherwise inaccessible for an away-team. 1. Class I Sensor Probe with a range of 2 x 10^5 Kilometers. Full EM/Subspace and Interstellar Chemistry pallet for in-space applications. Telemetry: 12,500 channels at 12 megawatts. 3. Class II Sensor Probe with a range of 4 x 10^5 Kilometers. Same instrumentation as a Class I Probe with the addition of enhanced long-range particle and field deflectors and imaging system. Telemetry: 15,650 channels at 20 megawatts. 3. Class III Planetary Probe with a range of 1.2 x 10^6 Kilometers. Terrestrial and Gas Giant sensor pallet with material sample and return capability; onboard chemical analysis submodule. Telemetry: 13,520 channels at approximately 15 megawatts. Limited SIF hull reinforcement. Full range of terrestrial soft landing to subsurface penetration missions; gas giant atmosphere missions survivable to 450 bar pressure. Limited terrestrial loiter time. 4. Class IV Stellar Encounter Probe with a range of 3.5 x 10^6 Kilometers. Triply redundant stellar fields and particle detectors, stellar atmosphere analysis suite. Telemetry: 9,870 channels at 65 megawatts. Also six ejectable/survivable radiation flux subprobes. Deployable for nonstellar energy phenomena. 5. Class V Medium Range Reconnaissance Probe with a range of 4.3 x 10^10 Kilometers. Telemetry: 6,320 channels at 2.5 megawatts. Planetary atmosphere entry and soft landing capability. Low observatory coatings and hull materials. Can be modified for tactical applications with the addition of a custom sensor countermeasure package. 6. Class VI Comm Relay/Emergency Beacon with a range of 4.3 x 10^10 kilometers. Standard sensor pallet with telemetry/communications including 9,270 channel RF and subspace transceiver operating at 350 megawatts peak radiated power. 360 degree omni antenna coverage, 0.0001 arc-second-high-gain antenna pointing resolution. Extended deuterium supply for transceiver power generation and planetary orbit plane changes. 7. Class VII Remote Culture Study Probe with a range of 4.5 x 10^8 kilometers. Passive data gathering system plus subspace transceiver. Telemetry: 1,050 channels at 0.5 megawatts. Applicable to civilizations up to technology level III. Low observability coatings and hull materials. Maximum loiter time: 3.5 months. Low-impact molecular destruct package tied to antitamper detectors. 8. Class VIII Medium-Range Multimission Warp Probe with a range of 1.2 x 10^2 light-years. Standard pallet plus mission-specific modules. Telemetry: 4,550 channels at 300 megawatts. Applications vary from galactic particles and fields research to early-warning reconnaissance missions 9. Class IV Long-Range Multimission Warp Probe with a range of 7.6 x 10^2 light-years. Standard pallet plus-mission specific modules. Telemetry: 6,500 channels at 230 megawatts. Limited payload capacity; isolinear memory storage of 3,400 kiloquads; fifty-channel transponder echo. Typical application is emergency-log/message capsule on homing trajectory to nearest starbase or known Starfleet vessel position. |