Discovery status of astronomical objects after death

Apologies if this is common knowledge and I'm just a dufus but I did search the forums and only found people whining about losing discovery data when they die. I know that's a risk you take, I understand why it's that way and I know it's my own fault I jumped to a system where I was stuck without enough fuel and a star that I couldn't scoop from so had to self destruct :p What I don't understand is why having lost the discovery data, if I go back those same systems they are still showing as discovered and I cannot re-scan them. Surely this makes no sense at all, either I should keep the data when I die or be able to go and get it again? Is this behaviour intentional or am I the victim of a bug?
 
It's just how it is, however I don't agree with it. If you are thousands of ly from anywhere it's not like it got stolen and sold, canisters don't live long in space currently...

Hopefully the exploring role is working it's way up from the bottom of the to do list.

Going back is another problem, unless the system has a simple name the search engine couldn't find a drink in a bar!
 
I have made notes (screenshots) of places of interest so have no problem finding the systems again and have visited a couple only to find that there's nothing for me to discover any more. I am happy with the idea my data is lost when my ship exploded, it just makes no sense at all that I can't go and re-scan those systems. Please devs tell me this isn't intentional!!!!
 
thats the one thing that I have been wondering, but didn't want to spend a ship to test was..

If you explore a system and have you ship destroyed before you can bring that info back to a starport, now I know that you lose the data to be sold, BUT does the system remain unexplored or explored in the galaxy map?
 
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Huh, that was supposed to have been fixed in 1.03. I wonder if 1.05 broke it again?

It's supposed to be fixed, yes.

Until somebody returns to a system he explored, and subsequently died, we won't know.

It should be re-scanable (which it wasn't before 1.03).
 
Sounds like this is a bug then. I had been out and about exploring various nebulae over the last few weeks (Witch Head, Orion and Pleiades) before taking a bum turn and stranding myself in a swarm of TTS stars. Unable to refuel I had to self destruct and go back to the edge of occupied space (I forget exactly where). When I respawned I made sure I had no data to sell (which was expected) and so set off for a system I knew I'd been to and scanned (the Maia system) to see if I could re-scan it and to my dismay I couldn't. This was a couple of days ago if that's at all relevant.
 
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