It was stopped once a week and everything was checked and adjusted. “The radio telescope was perfectly maintained. However, if we get closer to Arecibo and dig a little deeper, other opinions emerge. That link was hinted at by specialised blogs and even by Daniel Altschuler, former director of the observatory. The funding cuts by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) were quickly named as one of the causes of the collapse. Maintenance, knowledge or one-two punch of natural disasters
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On the morning of Tuesday, 1 December, while a drone was capturing images of the damaged cable strands and the engineers were evaluating how to stabilise the structure, it suddenly gave way-with the inevitable collapse of the 900-ton platform onto the dish, destroying the entire astronomical instrument. Almost immediately the maintenance teams began to work on its repair. The collapse began last November, when one of the auxiliary cables broke. Why was it such a potent symbol of science? Are these types of scientific macro-facilities sustainable? Why did it collapse? Could it havebeen saved? Is it worth rebuilding? We seek answers from the scientists who have worked on the Arecibo telescope. Thanks in part to Carl Sagan‘s novel Contact, it became firmly established in the collective imagination and forms part of contemporary popular culture, in addition to having inspired many careers in scientific research. An installation that had opened up new windows to outer space and whose importance transcended the field of astronomy. A deep shock was felt by the world of science earlier this month with the collapse of the giant radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico.
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