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Maintaining safety at the site, conducting a complete damage assessment as quickly as possible, and taking action to contain and mitigate any environmental damage caused by the structure or its materials are the priorities for NSF and UCF.

The National Science Foundation expects it will be several weeks before disassembly of the telescope can begin.

The University of Central Florida today delivered engineering options to address the Arecibo Observatory to the National Science Foundation. UCF manages the facility under a…

Engineers are reviewing the new damage and assessing how to best stabilize the facility.

A detailed structural model of the current state of the entire telescope began Aug. 17 and is expected to be completed within the next two weeks.

The unexpected findings were a result of data collected for more than a decade at the NSF facility, which is managed by the University of Central Florida, and from data from NASA’s Fermi Large Area Space Telescope.

The National Science Foundation facility is closed while engineers review the damage and assess the extent of repairs that will be needed to bring the telescope back online.