In late 2021, the Rubin Observatory LSST Camera will be shipped from SLAC National Laboratory in California to Cerro Pach´on in Chile. The Camera shipping container, designed based on lessons learned from previous shipments, is a standard 20 ft steel container retrofitted with a vibration-isolation system and insulation. This modified container will be shipped with a Camera mass surrogate from SLAC to the summit in early 2021 in order to verify as many aspects of the procedure and hardware as possible. Results from this preliminary shipment will guide further improvements to the shipping process prior to the shipment of the LSST Camera.
Rubin Observatory’s LSST Camera shipping container design and lessons learned
Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems VIII ; 2020 ; Online Only,California,United States
Proc. SPIE ; 11449
2020-12-13
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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