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Puerto Rico’s Arecibo radio telescope suffers serious damage – Yahoo Finance Australia
A broken cable damaged the Arecibo Observatory, the second-largest radio telescope in the world.
The Arecibo Observatory — the second-largest radio telescope in the world — is in trouble again. Early this week, a support cable snapped, causing a 100-foot-long gash in the telescopes reflector dish. It also damaged panels in a receiver called the Gregorian Dome and twisted a platform used to access the dome.
Most recently, the Puerto Rico-based observatory was studying near-Earth asteroids as part of a $19 million NASA grant. The University of Central Florida (UCF), which operates the tele…
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