The Mutara Interdimensional Deep-space Transponder Array (MIDAS) is designed to allow Starfleet to communicate with Starships across very long ranges, i.e. those operating well beyond the Federation borders on deep space assignments. The array has most famously been used by the Pathfinder project to contact the USS Voyager; the array was used to fire a 60 terawatt tachyon beam at a class-B itinerant pulsar, generating a microwormhole which allowed communications signals to travel over distances in excess of thirty thousand lightyears. This gave Starfleet regular two way real time communications with the lost starship for the first time.
Type-Communications array
Units-1
Date of Commission-2370
Dimensions- 1000 meters X 50 meters - Decks- N/A
Mass-150,000 metric tons
Crew Compliment-Unmanned
Armaments-None
Defence Systems-Light duranium/tritanium single hull, low level structual integrity field.
Warp Speed Capability-N/A
Docking Facilities-2 docking ports
Strength Indices(1000 is equal to a Galaxy class ship)-Beam Firepower- 0 , Torpedo Firepower- 0 Weapon accuracy and range- 0 , Shield strengh- 0 , Hull armor- 3.1 , Speed- 0 , Combat manoeuvrability- 0
Overall Strengh Index(out of 1000)-0
Expected Hull Life-20 years
Refit cycles-Minor: 1 year Standard: 2 years Major: 5 years