Antenna maintenance is essential. Small, medium, large antennas must be checked, inspected, always, before it's too late.
Legendary Arecibo telescope will close forever
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Sure, but this is not the case.
Arecibo radiotelescope was deadly damaged by hurricane Maria.
Another sign of climate changes.
73 de Piero, IK1IYU
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The case of Arecibo is a sad but classic case of negligence and budget cuts. The hurricanes did not killed it, they just gave it the final blow. Working with them in 2014 for the ISEE-3 recovery, they were already struggling then for basic maintenance.
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Now its crashed down ...
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They are already preparing a replacement project for Arecibo. It should be an array of 1000 (?) Steerable telescopes with a diameter of 9 meters.
The advantages of this concept include the possibility of doubling the sensitivity of the radio telescope and increasing the sky coverage by 250%.
This new concept can find application not only in astronomy and planetary science. One potential application is situational awareness in space.