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trothamel
As a minor note, MOST's software was architected by Henry Spencer, who wrote the original UNIX regex library.

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

maxxxxx
I would be curious about how regex was designed and developed. It's such a cool and not very intuitive to come up with thing.
diplocorp
I mean, regular expressions have existed in discrete maths for decades right?
maxxxxx
I don't know. Is that where the inspiration came from?
danielvf
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_...

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