The dramatic 2020 collapse of the famous Arecibo Telescope was 39 months in the making, according to a new federal report.
The just-released National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report found an "alarming" lack of documented concern about the telescope's safety and stability after it was damaged by Hurricane Maria in 2017. It also found that the failure of the cables that ultimately snapped, leading to the telescope's demise, could be traced to the sockets that held the cables in place.
