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Neutrons prove ‘Bond villain’ did not cause Arecibo telescope collapse

August 16, 2023 sarah JonasFeature

After appearing in the Bond film, “GoldenEye,” the Arecibo Observatory was the world’s largest radio telescope until December 2020, when its cable wires slipped causing the platform to collapse. Neutron imaging on failed cable sockets was performed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Globus Helps Preserve Precious Astronomy Data from the Arecibo Observatory

April 29, 2021 sarah Jonasblog

Within weeks of Arecibo’s collapse, the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) entered into an agreement with the University of Central Florida (UCF), the Engagement and Performance Operations Center (EPOC), the Arecibo Observatory, the Cyberinfrastructure Center of Excellence Pilot (CICoE Pilot), and Globus at the University of Chicago. Together, they’re moving the Arecibo radio telescope data to TACC’s Ranch, a long-term data mass storage system.

Cornell-designed Arecibo telescope ‘an inestimable loss’

November 20, 2020 sarah JonasFeature

In the wake of two recent support-cable failures, the National Science Foundation (NSF) will decommission and dismantle the giant dish at Arecibo Observatory – the world-class radio telescope in Puerto Rico that was conceived by Cornell University faculty, built with federal funding and then managed by Cornell for its first five decades.