Stanford University’s SLAC Laboratory constructed the camera with 189 sensors grouped together in sets of nine to construct “science rafts” that each weighs 20 lbs and cost $3 million. These 3200-megapixel images are the largest, single-shot photos ever taken and require nearly 400 4K, ultra-high-def TV screens to be fully displayed.
The camera is designed to survey the southern sky from Chile’s Rubin Observatory for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time(LSST,) and is ready to move to the Rubin Observatory in 2021.
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