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The satellite's cameras have photographed star clusters, especially the Orion and Pleides star associations. Ultra-violet pictures were taken of the moon, but they showed nothing surprising, Davis said.
"Failures in the satellite are occurring as predicted, 'Davis said. "Of the four telescope cameras, three are still operating and two are producing reliable data," he added. Before Project Celescope was launched from Cape Kennedy, scientists gave it a 70 per cent chance of lasting one year. The current condition...
Project Celescope is somewhat limited because it "can only operate over a ground station," Davis said.
The satellite makes fifteen to twenty ground station contacts each day, Davis added, and it sends as many as 18 pictures in a single transmission. The five stations now used by Project Celescope are located in North Carolina, Madagascar, Chile, Ecuador, and Australia.
"About 30 per cent of the data analysis task has been completed," Davis said, but the complete analysis will take several years.