An artist's rendering of the LSST Camera showing its major components including lenses, sensor array, and utility trunk.

SLAC's LSST team carefully unpack, examine, test and store the r-band filter, the first of six optic filters that will be part of the...

The LSST camera integration and testing team is slowly assembling the camera’s focal plane

Hannah Pollek and Travis Lange at the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) raft installation.

The LSST Camera's digital sensor, visible through the camera's five-foot front lens.

Photo of Vera Rubin taken with the focal plane of the LSST Camera.

This photo shows the 3,200-megapixel focal plane of Rubin Observatory’s LSST Camera, under construction at SLAC.

SLAC’s LSST camera will explore cosmic mysteries as part of the Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time. 

A SLAC team installs the final components of the LSST Camera focal plane that will become the heart and soul of the future camera...

The LSST camera will sit atop Rubin Observatory’s Simonyi Survey Telescope high in the Andes of Chile.