

Target anomaly has been narrowed down to being near one of the dots. Likely to be more or less accurate, but beware of deviation. Two Dots: Three probes have distances, which narrows it down to between two possible locations.Target anomaly is located near the circle. More accurate, and likely to yield better hits with more probes. Circle: Two probes have approximate distances.You can get multiple probes with independent hits, it can be messy. One probe only has a hit and approximate range. Sphere: The result is somewhere in the sphere.That way, the launcher will always be ready without you ever having to manually load it. (For example, if you have 8 probes active, carry 16 but only load 8.) As soon as you've launched your maximum number of probes and are busy placing them, the launcher will automatically load the next stack - exactly the amount you need for the next system (be aware, activating a cloaking device while the reload timer is ticking down will cancel the reload due to being cloaked). When you load your launcher initially, only load the amount of probes you can have active. Hint: Double clicking on the probe cube sets the probe cube to be the rotation pivot point, and re-centers the view to probe cube.Ĭarry exactly twice as many probes as you use at a time. The Solar System Map can be rotated using the Left Mouse Button, and panned using the Right Mouse Button as well.Ĭlicking an object (celestial body, station, probe, signature etc.) changes the pivot point when rotating with the Left Mouse Button.


If you are scanning large reaches of empty space, you might find mission sites and abandoned drones, but probably not much else. Sites only seem to spawn in a sphere 4 AU around celestials (may only be planets). This does not however reset probe constellation position in space. To reset the formation press either of the two preconfigured probe-patterns to reset both scan-range and position. This is why every so often you grab the cube and it slides away to somewhere weird - you accidentally grabbed the side of the cube instead of the top. If you grab the top or bottom, they slide on a horizontal plane, if you grab the sides of the cube, they slide on a vertical plane.

(Read Probing In Simple Steps for a more detailed guide, with tips and troubleshooting.) Wrecks, cargo containers, and cloaked ships cannot be scanned with probes. Combat scan probes can find structures, ships, and drones. All scan probes can be used for finding cosmic signatures.
