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Friday, June 20, 2003

Science Magazine

Tuesday, January 1, 2002

Nature News Feature

February

Camera "Onion"

A slideshow video of the camera being taken apart piece by piece.
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Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Image Credit: 
LSST

The LSST secondary mirror (M2) substrate has been safely relocated from Harvard University in Cambridge, MA to the Exelis facility in Rochester, NY. The mirror’s trek, which involved the use of a 50-ton internal bridge crane to load the mirror transport box onto a wide-load flatbed truck and a 70-ton external crane to offload it at destination, covered 604 miles in a little over a day. The truck and pilot vehicle departed Harvard at 1 pm on October 20 and arrived in Rochester at 3 pm on October 21. Subsequently, Exelis personnel have disassembled the transport box and thoroughly inspected the substrate.

Monday, July 1, 2013

LSST Science Book Preface

Major advances in our understanding of the Universe over the history of astronomy have often arisen from dramatic improvements in our ability to observe the sky to greater depth, in previously unexplored wavebands, with higher precision, or with improved spatial, spectral, or temporal resolution. Aided by rapid progress in information technology, current sky surveys are again changing the way we view and study the Universe, and the next-generation instruments, and the surveys that will be made with them, will maintain this revolutionary progress.

LSST Science Book Author Acknowledgements

Bankert, Justin R.
Purdue University, with support from the US Department of Energy and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Corporation

Barrientos, L. Felipe
Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile, with support from the Basal Center for Astrophysics and Associated Technologies PFB-06, and the FONDAP Center for Astrophysics, N.15010003

Bourne, Kirk D.
George Mason University, with support from the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Corporation

Brandt, W. N.

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Financial support for Rubin Observatory comes from the National Science Foundation (NSF) through Cooperative Agreement No. 1258333, the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science under Contract No. DE-AC02-76SF00515, and private funding raised by the LSST Corporation. The NSF-funded Rubin Observatory Project Office for construction was established as an operating center under management of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA).  The DOE-funded effort to build the Rubin Observatory LSST Camera (LSSTCam) is managed by the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC).
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 to promote the progress of science. NSF supports basic research and people to create knowledge that transforms the future.
NSF and DOE will continue to support Rubin Observatory in its Operations phase. They will also provide support for scientific research with LSST data.   




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