The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera’s focal plane has a surface area large enough to capture a portion of the sky...

The Rubin Observatory's LSST Camera will take enormously detailed images of the night sky from atop a mountain in Chile.


Mechanical engineer Travis Lange carefully watches the installation of the 14th raft tower modules.

Jeff Tice, background, holds the particle counter while Travis Lange inspects the surface of the r-band optical filter for dust particles.

From left, Travis Lange, Hannah Pollek and LLNL’s Justin Wolfe inspect LSST Camera optic filters.

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.
