The construction milestone, known as Critical Decision 3, is the last
major approval decision before the acceptance of the finished
3.2-gigapixel digital camera, said Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
(LSST) Director Steven Kahn: “Now we can go ahead and procure components
and start building it.”
The telescope’s camera — the size of a small car and weighing more than
three tons — will capture full-sky images at such high resolution that
it would take 1,500 high-definition television screens to display just
one of them.
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