To do this, the team needed a Rolls Royce of a digital camera.
Gizmodo visited the camera in its clean room in 2021you canread all about it here.
But several important agenda items still need to happen.
Flashing a light into the finished LSST Camera.Photo: Olivier Bonin/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
(Dont worrytheyve made a test run of the journey.)
But whenever all that is complete, the legacy survey will launch into a decades worth of scientific discovery.
News from the future, delivered to your present.
After successfull installation of the camera cryostat in April 2022.Photo: Travis Lange/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Most of the LSST Camera crew in the clean room with the instrument.Photo: Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
