Re: MOST (was Re: Zodiacal light linked to ancient Martian oceans)

From: Derek Lyons (derekl1963_at_nospamyahoo.com)
Date: 06/07/04 

Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 18:25:24 GMT

henry@spsystems.net (Henry Spencer) wrote:
>Pointing precision is now much better than specified despite a stray-light
>problem in the camera, and improving steadily as further software tweaks
>are done. Which is good, because the astronomers thought that science
>performance would be relatively unaffected by pointing jitter below the
>original spec, but they were wrong -- every time the pointing gets better,
>the data gets better.

Which is interesting because you posted earlier that the spec was
lowered (I.E. reduced pointing accuracy) to reduce the cost. (IIRC.)
When I questioned the validity of this, you insisted that it was OK
because everyone was happy.

D. 

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