Federation Shuttles and Ground Vehicles Database - Escape Pod Galaxy Class

	Length	3 m
	Beam	3 m
	Height	3 m
	Life support	eighty-six person days
	delta-v	3,600 m/sec
	Mass	1.53 metric tones
	From Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual

	History:
	Automated facilities on Earth, Mars, Rigel IV, and Starbase 326 prodeuce 85% of the ASRVs, with satellite facilities on Velikan V and Rangifer II acting as industry-sources for the remaining 15%. The main impulse engine, a low-power microfusion system for all primary spacecraft maneuvering, is rated at a maximum 950 kg thrust and is fed from a 75 kg deuterium fuel system. Out of four hundred ejecatable lifeboats installed within the Galaxy class, eighty are specialized ASRVs with two additional docking ports to increase the packing density and strutural integrity of the gaggle. Computer simulations indicate that at least 25% of any total number of enjected ASRVs are likely to be the four-port version. Lifeboats are yet another nifty idea that we may never actually get see in an episode. On the other hand, model maker Greg Jein, who built some of the dead starships for the graveyard TNG "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II", put some open lifeboat hatches on the destroyed ships, thereby suggesting that lifeboats were indeed used. Careful examination of that scene shows several different starships, including the Nebula class U.S.S. Melbourne, designed by Ede Miarecki. Star Trek The Next Generation : Technical Manual