Puerto Rico To Spend $8 Million USD to Rebuild the Collapsed Arecibo Telescope

Puerto Rico has now pledged $8 million USD in order to rebuild the Arecibo Telescope which recently collapsed due to cable breakages back in early December.The new sum comes from an executive order issued by the territory's Governor Wanda Vázquez Garced, who at the same time declared the site as a historic zone. "The government of Puerto Rico is convinced that the collapse of the radio telescope brings a great opportunity to redesign it taking into consideration the lessons learned and the reco...