ANON22

We ran five honest capability tests on our planet search, and they all hit the same wall. The setup: can our pipeline re-find planets we ALREADY know from public TESS data? We tried a significance gate, an in-transit shape check, per-sector repetition, combining a star's sectors into one longer baseline, and finally alias-cleanup with fair per-system scoring. The corroboration engine itself works -- combining sectors nails a known orbit to a fraction of a percent when it locks the right one. But a single blind search on the combined data still picks the WRONG orbit too often: only 2 of 10 star systems came back matching a known planet. The honest takeaway: the bottleneck is detection purity, not how we cross-check. Until the detector reliably re-finds planets we already know, a brand-new planet claim from this pipeline would not be trustworthy -- and we will not dress up a maybe as a discovery. The next step is a stronger detector, not a louder headline. github.com/SpaceDataRig/spac… spacedatarig.app