Nicole Acevedo is a reporter for NBC Latino.
Four years after the radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico collapsed, a report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine is shining a light on the unprecedented failures that caused its destruction. The steel cables holding up the telescope’s 900-ton receiver platform became loose because the zinc-filled sockets built to support them failed, according to the report published Oct. 25.
The committee reviewed an array of documents — including forensic investigations commissioned by the University of Central Florida and the National Science Foundation, the federal agency that owns the observatory, as well as structural analyses, engineering plans, inspection reports, photographs and repair proposals — to reach its conclusions.
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