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Re:Canada's Humble Space Telescope by danielvf on Monday January 14, 2019 @04:49PM (#18906865)
This article is from 2005.

In 2007, the US launched the KEPLER planet finding satellite with massively more capability than MOST.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_exoplanets_discovered_...

Re:Canada's Humble Space Telescope by pinewurst on Monday January 14, 2019 @09:36PM (#18908468)
MOST wasn’t/isn’t intended as a planet finder (and especially not competition for Kepler etc). It’s a tremendously cost effective and efficient tool for staring at particular stars with high pointing stability looking for variations.
Re:Canada's Humble Space Telescope by avmich on Monday January 14, 2019 @09:10PM (#18908347)
What's about capability per dollar of cost? KEPLER (a great instrument) can't boast this - "...this whole mission has an end-to-end budget of $10 million Canadian, or $7 million US.", can it?
Re:Canada's Humble Space Telescope by danielvf on Monday January 14, 2019 @11:17PM (#18908821)
Certainly not knocking MOST - it was a really cool mission, and we should do more in that buget range.
Re:Canada's Humble Space Telescope by rbanffy on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @10:45AM (#18911937)
And that budget was before the first Falcon 9 landed back to be reused.
Re:Canada's Humble Space Telescope by avmich on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @09:03PM (#18917672)
It was before Falcon-9 first flew.