diff --git a/packages/bake/src/objects/acquisition/operations-acquisition.test.ts b/packages/bake/src/objects/acquisition/operations-acquisition.test.ts
index 9a3f885d33e..e7cb097fa30 100644
--- a/packages/bake/src/objects/acquisition/operations-acquisition.test.ts
+++ b/packages/bake/src/objects/acquisition/operations-acquisition.test.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import { tmpdir } from 'node:os';
 import { join, resolve } from 'node:path';
 import { execFileSync } from 'node:child_process';
 import { randomUUID } from 'node:crypto';
-import { executeAcquisition, parseAcquisitionPlan, convertMappedComposition, parseMappedCompositionRecipe } from '@cssearth/bake/objects/acquisition';
+import { commandOutput, executeAcquisition, parseAcquisitionPlan, convertMappedComposition, parseMappedCompositionRecipe } from '@cssearth/bake/objects/acquisition';
 import { acquirePinnedDownloads, verifySources, type SourceManifest } from '@cssearth/bake/objects/sources';
 import { gzipSync } from 'node:zlib';
 const test = sourceTest();
@@ -285,6 +285,19 @@ test('ZIP restoration verifies both the streamed archive and its exact extracted
   }
 });
 
+// The ZIP test above restored an empty file on CI: unzip had finished a 59-byte member before the pinned write began to
+// read it, and Node discards what a finished child wrote that nothing reads yet. The reader here arrives late on purpose.
+test('a command\'s output is kept for a reader that arrives after the command has finished', async () => {
+  const output = commandOutput(process.execPath, ['-e', 'process.stdout.write("a small member")'], 'node');
+  await new Promise(done => { setTimeout(done, 400); });
+  const parts: Buffer[] = [];
+  for await (const chunk of output) parts.push(chunk as Buffer);
+  assert.equal(Buffer.concat(parts).toString(), 'a small member');
+  // A command that fails ends the stream with the first line of its complaint.
+  const failing = commandOutput(process.execPath, ['-e', 'process.stdout.write("part");console.error("caution: filename not matched\\nmore");process.exit(11)'], 'unzip could not read member.bin');
+  await assert.rejects(async () => { for await (const _chunk of failing) { /* read to the end */ } }, /^Error: unzip could not read member\.bin: caution: filename not matched\.$/u);
+});
+
 // A pinned slice of an archive member too large to keep whole: the request must be honoured as 206 Partial Content,
 // and a server that answers with the whole body is refused instead of downloaded.
 const slice=Buffer.from('exactly the pinned slice of a very large archive member');
diff --git a/packages/bake/src/objects/acquisition/operations-acquisition.ts b/packages/bake/src/objects/acquisition/operations-acquisition.ts
index c4f2e0bd2e6..4a5369eccc2 100644
--- a/packages/bake/src/objects/acquisition/operations-acquisition.ts
+++ b/packages/bake/src/objects/acquisition/operations-acquisition.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import sharp from 'sharp';
 import { lstat, readFile, mkdir, rename, rm } from 'node:fs/promises';
 import { createWriteStream } from 'node:fs';
 import { basename, dirname, resolve } from 'node:path';
-import { Readable } from 'node:stream';
+import { PassThrough, Readable } from 'node:stream';
 import { pipeline } from 'node:stream/promises';
 import { execFile, spawn } from 'node:child_process';
 import { promisify } from 'node:util';
@@ -31,6 +31,19 @@ const rangedEntry=(manifest:SourceManifest,path:string)=>[...manifest.inputs,...
 // default transport names this project; a step's own headers win.
 const SOURCE_USER_AGENT='cssEarth/0.6 (https://github.com/layoutit/css.earth; source restore)';
 const NAMED_TRANSPORT:AcquisitionTransport={fetch:(url,init)=>fetch(url,{...init,headers:{'user-agent':SOURCE_USER_AGENT,...Object.fromEntries(new Headers(init?.headers))}})};
+/** A command's output as a stream. It is piped on at once: Node discards what a finished child wrote that nothing reads yet, so a reader
+ *  that arrives late (publishPinnedSourceStream makes the directory first) got none of a small member, and an empty file was pinned.
+ *  A command that fails ends the stream with the first line of its complaint, under `what`. */
+export function commandOutput(command:string,args:readonly string[],what:string):Readable {
+ const child=spawn(command,args,{stdio:['ignore','pipe','pipe']}),output=child.stdout.pipe(new PassThrough());
+ let complaint='';child.stderr.on('data',(chunk:Buffer)=>{complaint+=chunk.toString();});
+ const exit=new Promise<number|null>(done=>{child.on('close',done);});
+ child.on('error',error=>{output.destroy(error);});
+ return Readable.from((async function*(){
+  for await(const chunk of output)yield chunk as Buffer;
+  if(await exit!==0)throw new Error(`${what}: ${complaint.trim().split('\n')[0]||'no message'}.`);
+ })());
+}
 export async function executeAcquisition({sourceRoot,manifest,plan,group='refresh',transport=NAMED_TRANSPORT,mirrorOrigin=null,objectId=basename(dirname(sourceRoot))}:{sourceRoot:string;manifest:SourceManifest;plan:AcquisitionPlan;group?:string;transport?:AcquisitionTransport;mirrorOrigin?:string|null;objectId?:string}) {
  const selected=plan.operations.filter(step=>step.groups.includes(group));if(!selected.length)throw new Error(`Acquisition group ${group} is undeclared.`);
  const request=async(url:string,init?:RequestInit)=>{const response=await transport.fetch(url,init);if(!response.ok)throw new Error(`Source request failed ${response.status}: ${url}.`);return response;};
@@ -91,13 +104,7 @@ export async function executeAcquisition({sourceRoot,manifest,plan,group='refres
    const entry=[...manifest.inputs,...manifest.generatedIntermediates,...manifest.documents].find(entry=>entry.path===step.path);if(!entry)throw new Error(`Undeclared acquisition target: ${step.path}.`);
    // unzip writes the member straight into the pinned file, so one of hundreds of megabytes is never held in memory. A
    // member unzip could not read whole fails the stream before the file takes its place.
-   const child=spawn('unzip',['-p',archivePath,step.member],{stdio:['ignore','pipe','pipe']});
-   let complaint='';child.stderr.on('data',(chunk:Buffer)=>{complaint+=chunk.toString();});
-   const exit=new Promise<number|null>((done,fail)=>{child.on('close',done);child.on('error',fail);});
-   await publishPinnedSourceStream({sourceRoot,entry,stream:Readable.from((async function*(){
-    for await(const chunk of child.stdout)yield chunk as Buffer;
-    if(await exit!==0)throw new Error(`unzip could not read ${step.member} from ${step.url}: ${complaint.trim().split('\n')[0]??'no message'}.`);
-   })())});
+   await publishPinnedSourceStream({sourceRoot,entry,stream:commandOutput('unzip',['-p',archivePath,step.member],`unzip could not read ${step.member} from ${step.url}`)});
   }
   else if(step.kind==='tar-gz-member'){
    const cache=resolve('.local/source-archives');await mkdir(cache,{recursive:true});
diff --git a/packages/telescope-cli/src/new-object/new-object-cli.test.mts b/packages/telescope-cli/src/new-object/new-object-cli.test.mts
index 24c23d5f1e8..4edf53422c6 100644
--- a/packages/telescope-cli/src/new-object/new-object-cli.test.mts
+++ b/packages/telescope-cli/src/new-object/new-object-cli.test.mts
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ test('prose the scaffold cannot know is marked, and the package it writes matche
   }
   assert.deepEqual(JSON.parse(files.get('src/objects/antares/source/presentation/solar-system.json')!), JSON.parse(await readFile(resolve(root, 'src/objects/antares/source/presentation/solar-system.json'), 'utf8')));
   assert.throws(() => scaffoldStarFiles({ ...spec, temperatureK: Number.NaN }, record, EPOCH), /effectiveTemperatureK/u);
-  assert.throws(() => scaffoldStarFiles({ ...spec, temperatureK: 100 }, record, EPOCH), /1,000 and 40,000 K/u);
+  assert.throws(() => scaffoldStarFiles({ ...spec, temperatureK: 100 }, record, EPOCH), /1,000 and 250,000 K/u);
   assert.throws(() => scaffoldStarFiles({ ...spec, temperatureSource: 'Ohnaka et al. 2013' }, record, EPOCH), /URL/u);
   assert.throws(() => scaffoldStarFiles(spec, { ...record, star: { ...record.star, presentationUp: undefined } }, EPOCH), /presentationUp/u);
 });
diff --git a/packages/telescope-cli/src/new-object/simulation/simulation-dataset.mts b/packages/telescope-cli/src/new-object/simulation/simulation-dataset.mts
index 39c5f2caed2..920896affb5 100644
--- a/packages/telescope-cli/src/new-object/simulation/simulation-dataset.mts
+++ b/packages/telescope-cli/src/new-object/simulation/simulation-dataset.mts
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ import { containedPath, publishPinnedSourceStream } from '@cssearth/bake/objects
 import { assertRangeResponse, rangeRequestHeader } from '@cssearth/objects/node';
 import type { Archive } from '../archives/archives.mts';
 import { bindInputs, json, openOnMap, type PackageFiles } from '../dataset.mts';
-import { MAX_RECORDS, ZENODO_RECORDS, namesObject, parseZenodoRecord, parseZenodoSearch, reuseLicense, sizeText, speaksOfSimulation, zenodoQuery, type ReuseLicense } from '../../simulations/simulations.mts';
+import { MAX_RECORDS, ZENODO_RECORDS, nameForms, namesObject, parseZenodoRecord, parseZenodoSearch, reuseLicense, sizeText, speaksOfSimulation, zenodoQuery, type ReuseLicense } from '../../simulations/simulations.mts';
 
 export interface SimulationEntry {
   /** Dataset id, and the dataset key of its reader text. */
@@ -318,8 +318,22 @@ export function installSimulationDataset(files: PackageFiles, id: string, name:
   return { minimum, maximum, promoted: openOnMap(files, id, entry.dataset) };
 }
 
-/** Zenodo's guest search answers 30 requests a minute: one is made every PACE_MS, for NAMES_AT_ONCE names, up to PAGES pages. */
-const PACE_MS = 2100, NAMES_AT_ONCE = 40, PAGES = 4;
+/** Zenodo's guest search answers 30 requests a minute: one is made every PACE_MS, up to PAGES pages for a question.
+ * It refuses a long question with HTTP 500, so the survey of 40 names at once had stopped working. A question is sized by
+ * the spellings it asks for (`nameForms`: two for "TOI-1266 c", four for "HD 189733 b", eight for "HD 135344 Ab"), since
+ * that is what its length follows. Measured 2026-10-05 on 110 questions: every one of up to 33 spellings was answered,
+ * those of 40 were answered or refused, and every one of 44 or more was refused. */
+const PACE_MS = 2100, SPELLINGS_AT_ONCE = 32, PAGES = 4;
+
+/** `names` in questions Zenodo answers: in order, each as full as SPELLINGS_AT_ONCE allows; a name with more goes alone. */
+export function surveyQuestions(names: readonly string[]): string[][] {
+  const questions: string[][] = [];
+  for (const name of names) {
+    const open = questions.at(-1);
+    if (open && nameForms([...open, name]).length <= SPELLINGS_AT_ONCE) open.push(name); else questions.push([name]);
+  }
+  return questions;
+}
 
 /** Which of `names` have simulation records on Zenodo, asked once for a whole draft run so no sweep passes one by unseen.
  * `note` gives a host's report the records of its planets. It is a note for a person: a record becomes a dataset only
@@ -328,8 +342,7 @@ export async function simulationSurvey(archive: Archive, names: readonly string[
   const found = new Map<string, string[]>(), unique = [...new Set(names.filter(Boolean))];
   let failure: string | undefined, asked = 0;
   try {
-    for (let start = 0; start < unique.length; start += NAMES_AT_ONCE) {
-      const group = unique.slice(start, start + NAMES_AT_ONCE);
+    for (const group of surveyQuestions(unique)) {
       for (let page = 1; page <= PAGES; page++) {
         if (asked++) await wait(PACE_MS);
         const records = parseZenodoSearch(JSON.parse(await archive.text(`${zenodoQuery(group)}&page=${page}`)));
diff --git a/packages/telescope-cli/src/new-object/simulation/simulation-dataset.test.mts b/packages/telescope-cli/src/new-object/simulation/simulation-dataset.test.mts
index 77104b7f6e1..edc93c207ad 100644
--- a/packages/telescope-cli/src/new-object/simulation/simulation-dataset.test.mts
+++ b/packages/telescope-cli/src/new-object/simulation/simulation-dataset.test.mts
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ import { loadNetcdfLonLatField } from '@cssearth/bake/objects/raster';
 import { WORKSPACE } from '@cssearth/telescope/node';
 import type { Archive } from '../archives/archives.mts';
 import { rebuildExistingDatasets } from '../planet-datasets.mts';
-import { installSimulationDataset, parseSimulationEntries, restoreSimulationField, restoreSimulationMember, roundedRange, simulationPaths, simulationRecipe, simulationRelease, simulationSurvey } from './simulation-dataset.mts';
+import { installSimulationDataset, parseSimulationEntries, restoreSimulationField, restoreSimulationMember, roundedRange, simulationPaths, simulationRecipe, simulationRelease, simulationSurvey, surveyQuestions } from './simulation-dataset.mts';
 
 const id = 'trappist-1f', o = `src/objects/${id}`;
 const fixture = resolve(WORKSPACE, 'packages/bake/src/objects/raster/netcdf/fixtures/field-cdf2.nc');
@@ -240,12 +240,18 @@ test('a draft run asks Zenodo once for all its planets, paces its requests and s
   assert.equal(survey.note(['TRAPPIST-1 e', 'TRAPPIST-1 f']), '; published simulations on Zenodo, to read before any is shown: TRAPPIST-1 e 10.5281/zenodo.5532765, 10.5281/zenodo.7752337, 10.5281/zenodo.10209661');
   assert.equal(survey.note(['TRAPPIST-1 f']), '');
   assert.equal(survey.failure, undefined);
-  // Forty names go in one request; a full page asks for the next, 2.1 seconds later.
-  const many = Array.from({ length: 41 }, (_, index) => `Planet-${index + 1} b`), full = { hits: { hits: Array.from({ length: 25 }, () => body.hits.hits[3]!) } };
+  // A question holds 32 spellings, the size Zenodo answers: sixteen of these planets; a full page asks for the next, 2.1 seconds later.
+  const many = Array.from({ length: 17 }, (_, index) => `Planet-${index + 1} b`), full = { hits: { hits: Array.from({ length: 25 }, () => body.hits.hits[3]!) } };
   let calls = 0;
-  const paged: Archive = { ...archive(null), text: async () => JSON.stringify(calls++ === 0 ? full : { hits: { hits: [] } }) };
+  const questions: string[] = [];
+  const paged: Archive = { ...archive(null), text: async url => { questions.push(url); return JSON.stringify(calls++ === 0 ? full : { hits: { hits: [] } }); } };
   assert.equal((await simulationSurvey(paged, many, async ms => { waits.push(ms); })).requests, 3);
   assert.deepEqual(waits, [2100, 2100]);
+  // The first sixteen planets twice, a page apart, then the seventeenth alone.
+  assert.deepEqual(questions.map(url => [(decodeURIComponent(url).match(/Planet-\d+b/gu) ?? []).length, new URL(url).searchParams.get('page')]), [[16, '1'], [16, '2'], [1, '1']]);
+  // A name written more ways takes more of a question: four spellings for a catalogue number, eight for a planet of a lettered star.
+  assert.deepEqual(surveyQuestions(['HD 1 b', 'HD 2 b', 'HD 3 b', 'HD 4 b', 'HD 5 b', 'HD 6 b', 'HD 7 b', 'HD 8 b', 'HD 9 b']).map(question => question.length), [8, 1]);
+  assert.deepEqual(surveyQuestions(['HD 135344 Ab', 'HD 93963 A b', 'HD 93963 A c', 'HD 202772 A b', 'HD 1 b']).map(question => question.length), [4, 1]);
   const failing: Archive = { ...archive(null), text: async () => { throw new Error('HTTP 429 from https://zenodo.org/api/records'); } };
   const failed = await simulationSurvey(failing, ['TRAPPIST-1 e']);
   assert.equal(failed.failure, 'Zenodo could not be asked for published simulations of every planet (HTTP 429 from https://zenodo.org/api/records); ask with telescope simulations OBJECT.');
diff --git a/packages/telescope-cli/src/simulations/simulations.mts b/packages/telescope-cli/src/simulations/simulations.mts
index b9960b1bba3..c1745dbfa86 100644
--- a/packages/telescope-cli/src/simulations/simulations.mts
+++ b/packages/telescope-cli/src/simulations/simulations.mts
@@ -74,11 +74,17 @@ export function parseZenodoSearch(value: unknown): readonly ZenodoRecord[] {
 
 const words = (value: string): string => ` ${value.normalize('NFKD').replace(/\p{Diacritic}/gu, '').toLowerCase().replace(/[^\p{L}\p{N}]+/gu, ' ').trim()} `;
 /** A planet is written with and without a space before its letter ("TRAPPIST-1e", "TRAPPIST-1 e"), and a catalogue number
- * with and without one after its letters ("GJ 1214b", "GJ1214b"): every spelling is searched and matched. */
+ * with and without one after its letters ("GJ 1214b", "GJ1214b"): every spelling is searched and matched. So is a planet of
+ * a lettered star: Zenodo's record of WASP-94 A b's model writes "WASP-94A b", and went unfound until this covered it. */
 export function nameForms(names: readonly string[]): string[] {
   return [...new Set(names.map(name => name.trim()).filter(Boolean).flatMap(name => {
     const planet = /^(.*[^\s])\s?([b-z])$/u.exec(name);
-    const forms = planet && /\d$/u.test(planet[1]!) ? [`${planet[1]}${planet[2]}`, `${planet[1]} ${planet[2]}`] : [name];
+    // A planet of a lettered star (A to D) is written with the star's letter joined or set off, on either side: "WASP-94 A b",
+    // "WASP-94A b", "WASP-94 Ab", "WASP-94Ab". A host that ends in a letter keeps the space before its star's letter ("DS Tuc Ab").
+    const lettered = /^(.*\d)\s?([A-D])\s?([b-z])$/u.exec(name) ?? /^(.*[^\s\d])\s([A-D])\s?([b-z])$/u.exec(name);
+    const stars = lettered ? [...(/\d$/u.test(lettered[1]!) ? [`${lettered[1]}${lettered[2]}`] : []), `${lettered[1]} ${lettered[2]}`] : [];
+    const forms = lettered ? stars.flatMap(star => [`${star}${lettered[3]}`, `${star} ${lettered[3]}`])
+      : planet && /\d$/u.test(planet[1]!) ? [`${planet[1]}${planet[2]}`, `${planet[1]} ${planet[2]}`] : [name];
     return forms.flatMap(form => /^[A-Za-z]+ \d/u.test(form) ? [form, form.replace(' ', '')] : [form]);
   }))];
 }
diff --git a/packages/telescope-cli/src/simulations/simulations.test.mts b/packages/telescope-cli/src/simulations/simulations.test.mts
index 7b5f43119a4..5645c59bd04 100644
--- a/packages/telescope-cli/src/simulations/simulations.test.mts
+++ b/packages/telescope-cli/src/simulations/simulations.test.mts
@@ -47,6 +47,23 @@ test('a planet is matched with and without the space before its letter, as a phr
   assert.match(zenodoQuery(['TRAPPIST-1e']), /^https:\/\/zenodo\.org\/api\/records\?q=%22TRAPPIST-1e%22\+OR\+%22TRAPPIST-1\+e%22&type=dataset&size=25&sort=bestmatch$/u);
 });
 
+test('a planet of a lettered star is matched with the star\'s letter joined or set off', () => {
+  const forms = ['WASP-94Ab', 'WASP-94A b', 'WASP-94 Ab', 'WASP-94 A b'];
+  for (const written of forms) assert.deepEqual(nameForms([written]), forms, written);
+  // A catalogue number is still also written without the space after its letters.
+  assert.deepEqual(nameForms(['GJ 667 C c']), ['GJ 667Cc', 'GJ667Cc', 'GJ 667C c', 'GJ667C c', 'GJ 667 Cc', 'GJ667 Cc', 'GJ 667 C c', 'GJ667 C c']);
+  // A host that ends in a letter keeps the space before its star's letter.
+  assert.deepEqual(nameForms(['DS Tuc A b']), ['DS Tuc Ab', 'DS Tuc A b']);
+  assert.deepEqual(nameForms(['DS Tuc Ab']), ['DS Tuc Ab', 'DS Tuc A b']);
+  // Names without a star's letter before the planet's are left as they were.
+  assert.deepEqual(nameForms(['AU Mic b', 'Proxima Cen b', 'HD 19467 B', 'TOI-1266 c']), ['AU Mic b', 'Proxima Cen b', 'HD 19467 B', 'HD19467 B', 'TOI-1266c', 'TOI-1266 c']);
+  // Zenodo's record of WASP-94 A b's model (10.5281/zenodo.15085825) writes the planet "WASP-94A b".
+  const record = { title: 'Cloudy Mornings and Clear Evenings on a Giant Extrasolar World', description: 'the reduced transmission spectrum of the morning and evening terminators of planet WASP-94A b.' };
+  assert.equal(namesObject(record, ['WASP-94 A b']), true);
+  assert.equal(namesObject({ title: 'Radial velocities of WASP-94 B b', description: '' }, ['WASP-94 A b']), false, 'the other star\'s planet is another planet');
+  assert.equal(new URL(zenodoQuery(['WASP-94 A b'])).searchParams.get('q'), '"WASP-94Ab" OR "WASP-94A b" OR "WASP-94 Ab" OR "WASP-94 A b"');
+});
+
 test('only a license known to allow a derived picture counts as reuse', () => {
   assert.deepEqual(reuseLicense('cc-by-4.0'), { name: 'CC BY 4.0', url: 'https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/' });
   assert.equal(reuseLicense('CC-BY-NC-4.0')?.name, 'CC BY-NC 4.0');