A broken cable was the final straw for the already badly damaged Arecibo Observatory's radio telescope in Puerto Rico. The massive structure's 900-ton instrument platform collapsed on Tuesday (Dec. 1) and landed on the 1,000-foot-wide (305 meters) radio dish.
The cable parted at around 8 a.m. local time, Ramon Lugo, director of the Florida Space Institute (FSI) at the University of Central Florida, told Science magazine. The FSI manages the telescope, which is owned by the National Science Foundation (NSF). While details of the collapse are still forthcoming, the previous failures of two cables in August and November, respectively, placed an extra burden on the remaining support structures. During the past week, the cables that were still in place were rapidly unraveling, losing about one wire per day, Lugo told Science. Sent from Xfinity Connect Application -----Original Message----- From: n...@comcast.net To: wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: 2020-11-28 6:08:10 PM Subject: [wsjt-devel] Normally i would not go off subject, but.. Petition To Save Arecibo https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/petition-emergency-action-evaluate-and-stabilize-arecibo-radio-telescope Please consider signing and sharing widely. DE N2LO ~> _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
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