The Texas was not designed to operate in a planet's atmosphere but was constructed to withstand the pressures involved in an emergency planet fall. Landing pads were built into the ship's underside, and simulations show that the Defiant-class is capable of achieving liftoff from a planet's surface.
The Texas is equipped with its own auxiliary spacecraft: it carries three shuttlepods and two Type-10 shuttlecraft which are located in the shuttlebay on decks 3 and 4 directly below the bridge. In addition, the Texas carries two types of escape pods, a six-person and an eight-person version; there are 26 of the six-person model and each escape pod can keep the occupants alive for up to eight months. |
