sad news about arecibo damage from broken cable: photo of damaged dish in this news piece:
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9358be/a-broken-cable-has-wrecked-one-of-earths-largest-radio-telescopes a few details : Becker, Tracy M. tracy.bec...@swri.org via <https://support.google.com/mail/answer/1311182?hl=en> berkeley.edu 4:16 AM (10 hours ago) Reply to aous...@naic.edu Dear AO Users, We have unfortunate news to share with the AO community. Early yesterday morning one of the auxiliary cables at tower 4 of the Arecibo Observatory experienced a failure. Fortunately, there were no resulting injuries to our team. The cable failure damaged 250 panels of the primary dish, as well as 6-8 panels on the Gregorian Dome. The telescope is currently undergoing inspections so that the following tasks can be accomplished: - Safely remove debris, preventing them from causing more damage. - Position the Gregorian dome in a structurally stable (stow) position. - Develop a plan for damage repair *There will be no observations at the Arecibo Observatory for at least two weeks.* As soon as we have completed our initial assessment, we will share more details regarding the cable failure and our plans going forward to address this issue. We thank the AO community for their support at this time. Sincerely, Ray Lugo, Francisco Cordova, and the AO management team -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "casper@lists.berkeley.edu" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to casper+unsubscr...@lists.berkeley.edu. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/lists.berkeley.edu/d/msgid/casper/CAGHS_vGcew7jcgZm6sqdW2hVoOWD4uFwc19LTcok7WLFJU5N7w%40mail.gmail.com.
