Is the difference between this and a normal telescope that it has a wider field of view for the same level of detail? So you could do the same thing more slowly by taking hundreds of pictures in different directions with a normal telescope?
It probably would have been clearer if the article said 3.2 gigapixel. My first reaction was bewilderment at the excitement over a 3.200 megapixel camera (yes I misread the comma).
I'm curious about the project's early designers; could they foresee the current impact of satellite constellations on earth-based observations? How might it have influenced the system design and/or planned operations?