Free account. 1st character. Following the Explorer path if that matters and still very much in the early part of the tutorial at the stage when I’m supposed to go out and launch probes and find a site and pillage it (Cosmic Anomalies 3 of 5).
I had 8 probes loaded into my “Core probe scanner 1” fitting. I was in the Probe scanner screen experimenting with various patterns and ranges and all that and had to log off. I am 100% sure I did not click the Launch probes button at any point. When I logged back on all my probes were missing. I still had the fitting but no probe “ammo” to put into it anymore. The probe ammo was not in the ship inven or item hanger or anywhere else I knew to check. I tried clicking around with the 2 probe-retrieval buttons and just couldn’t get anywhere.
I’m more than willing to delete the character and start over (in fact its got 8 hours left on the timer), but is there something else I could do instead?