‘Sad day for radio astronomy’: Arecibo Observatory to shut down

[Platapus]

With current technology and by using state of the art distributed aperture designs, can the same data be obtained without the expense of a monolithic aperture?


Arecibo was cool. Very cool. But it was old cool. While it had been upgraded several times, there is only so much new technology that can be applied to that type of fixed aperture.