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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/wik

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

avmich 8y ago
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?
- danielvf 8y ago
  Certainly not knocking MOST - it was a really cool mission, and we should do more in that buget range.
  - rbanffy 8y ago
    And that budget was before the first Falcon 9 landed back to be reused.
    - avmich 8y ago
      It was before Falcon-9 first flew.
pinewurst 8y ago
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.