As he flew his lookout mission, like a man in the crow's nest of an ancient pirate ship, Jess deployed floating sensors into Welyr's soupy clouds.
Heflin then ordered the Officer of the Deck to ascend and "deploy sensors."
Mission packages are supported by special detachments that will deploy manned and unmanned vehicles and sensors.
These features make it easy to deploy sensors, controls, or even actuators and indicators.
Its function wasn't to fight off a serious attack-not with ships of cruiser size and below-but to provide early warning by deploying sensors between the Emperor and that region of space from which danger might come.
They deployed other sensors to pick up ground movements along with shifts in gases, electrical and magnetic fields that flow from subterranean movements of magma.
Now and then we would get orders from the scout ship to go to a certain point on the sea bottom, always near a land mass and at shallow depth, and deploy sensors through the forward hatch.
She also has a retractable transducer centerboard (drop keel) for deploying various sensors under the vessel.
The United States spends about $1 billion a year on various programs to reduce this threat and is deploying better sensors to detect radioactive material.
Costing a projected $420 million, it was to deploy environmental sensors and wire four major cities, including Washington, into a disease-surveillance network.