Personal Log: 822/02/03, Omicron-74, Corinth Station
Jeremy and Sandra are either geniuses or crazy, or maybe both. Between the two of them, they have come up with a method for using Sleipnir's gunnery targeting systems as a nine dish secondary array to improve the data collection capabilities of the ship.
It is not worth a tinker's damn as far as combat capabilities since each sensor in tactical mode functions like classical radar, but it improves the general sensor array by a factor of 2.5 to 3 times by using a shotgun approach and having all of the Solaris dishes listen to each other and the main array. It will probably require that we mount a dedicated contraption involving Gravity Field Stabilizers, Optronics Arrays and Energy Field Equipment to refine the signals. I don't think that the process would work with any weapon system that doesn't have its own dedicated sensors, but, for us, it will make Sleipnir an even better research platform.
This is probably a good thing, as it seems we are going to have to do our data collection on the black hole at a distance of one star system away. If that is the case, then it is going to take at least a month, instead of the couple of days I was hoping for if we could get into Omicron-85. Instead of direct observation, we'll have to use an array technique, sampling readings and moving around to get composite data over a period of time. It's that "period of time" that is going to be wearing.
Next stop, a shopping trip to New Tokyo, then on to Colorado.