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Principle of operations

90% of the observing time of the telescope devoted to a deep-wide-fast survey
one complete visit of the southern hemisphere sky every 3-4 nights, from 2022 for 10 years
43% of the celestial sphere will be covered by this survey
each patch of the sky to be visited about 1000 times

Science themes determining the nature of dark energy and dark matter

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Current status

Formal agreement with LSSTC and NCSA (2015) IN2P3 makes arrangements to connect CC-IN2P3 to Chicago (StarLight)
Allocation of 20 Gbps for the segment Paris (GEANT) ⇄ Chicago (StarLight) devoted to LSST need