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LTC Stephen F.
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Thank you my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting another installment of the collapse of the Arecibo Telescope for the NASA Astronomy Video of the Day (APOD) is titled "Arecibo Telescope Collapse."
That telescope endured for over 50 years after being completed in November 1963.
There is no requirement or even capability to build a suitable upgrade at Arecibo. China's Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) is the largest and last remaining giant, single-dish telescope.

Background summary from [cds.cern.ch/record/918193/files/0512499.pdf]
IAU Symposium 232 allows a snapshot of ELTs at a stage when design work in several critical mass projects has been seriously underway for two to three years. The status and some of the main initial design choices are reviewed for the North American Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) and the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) projects and the European Euro50 and the Overwhelmingly Large (OWL) projects.

A. The GMT consortium is composed of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Arizona, University of Michigan, Smithsonian Institution, the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University.
B. The Euro 50 project, growing out of Lund Observatory in Sweden, collaborating with Galway, IAC in Spain, Turku, NPL and UCL in the UK, deserves special note. It is the proto-type effort which started serious thinking about ELTs in the early 1990’s and with the addition of a credible AO system helped convince the large telescope community that ELTs were feasible and affordable telescopes.
C. The Overwhelmingly Large Telescope Project
The OWL project entered this meeting with a 100m design concept. Toward the end of the meeting Guy Monnet announced on behalf of ESO that the OWL project intended to concentrate on a revised design in the 40-60m range, with his personal inclination favouring a low-40m aperture target. The ability to make decisions of this magnitude is one of the hallmarks of a successful project office. Moreover it now appears that the community at large has agreed that the 100m scale telescope will be left for the future.


Video: Arecibo Telescope Collapse - Video Credit: Arecibo Observatory, NSF
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1. NAIC Arecibo Observatory -NSF, Ricardo Arduengo - before and after collapse [December 1, 2020] images
2. Juxtaposed screen grabs from a video taken by the Arecibo Observatory show the telescope's platform as it fell. Courtesy of the Arecibo Observatory, a US National Science Foundation facility
3. The Arecibo Observatory in 2012. The Gregorian Dome hangs over the 1,000-foot reflector dish.

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LTC Stephen F.
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Good morning Sir. Are there plans to replace this radio telescope with a new one?
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Maj William W. 'Bill' Price
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Good morning PO2 (Join to see). I'm not aware of any. But we aren't completely blind in this area. See: https://public.nrao.edu/
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SPC Michael Duricko, Ph.D
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It appears that faulty cable engineering may have been at the root of the collapse. An installation
in mainland USA would be great unless the geographic location mandates its' location elsewhere for astrological reasons.
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LTC Stephen F.
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PO2 (Join to see) there have been plans to build more capable radio telescopes for a over 20 years. I posted a summary and link in my response. FYI Maj William W. 'Bill' Price
" North American Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) and the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) projects and the European Euro50 and the Overwhelmingly Large (OWL) projects."
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Lt Col Charlie Brown
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I think we will have to set up a new one that we have access to Maj William W. 'Bill' Price
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