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

[Gerald]

ANU Cosmologist Dr Brad Tucker says the 305-metre Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico will be shut down after almost six decades.

“It’s had a bad run, it got hit bad by the hurricane that hit in Puerto Rico in 2017, there was obviously the earthquake in 2019 and overtime the fatigue has meant that a couple of key components that keep this dish up have broken.”

https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6211097874001

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Observatory


'Six decades impressive I knew it had been in use for a long time but not that the tracks went back to the late 1950s.