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Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Arecibo Dish Antenna Seriously Damaged


https://www.sciencealert.com/a-broken-cable-smashed-a-huge-hole-in-the-arecibo-observatory
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4 comments:

  1. John KA1XCAugust 12, 2020 at 11:15 AM

    Well they say if your antenna doesn't fall down every winter then it's not big enough! :)

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  2. KK4DASAugust 13, 2020 at 8:04 AM

    Very sad occasion for astronomy. At least with a ground-based telescope it is relatively easy to get a crew there to do the repair. Remember Hubble? I was at JPL at the time the Hubble repair mission was executed. Amazing work.

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  3. Bill MearaAugust 13, 2020 at 10:37 AM

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  4. Bill MearaAugust 13, 2020 at 10:39 AM

    Correcting a typo:
    I agree Dean -- this is really sad. We have a ground-based dish built into the terrain. The dish itself doesn't move. Yet somehow we can't keep it from getting damaged? That's pretty bad. Didn't know you were at JPL. We'll have to talk about this someday. 73 Bill

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