Milestone in mission preparation
Milestone in mission preparation
Engineers at OHB in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, inspect Plato's newly installed cameras on the spacecraft's optical bench – the structure that keeps all cameras firmly pointed in the right direction. Each camera is equipped with four CCD light-sensors providing a total of 81.4 megapixels per camera, resulting in images with a total of two billion pixels – the largest images ever for a space mission.
