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Message: <blockquote data-quote="imhotep" data-source="post: 25924507" data-attributes="member: 562115">NASA is not a major stakeholder of the Arecibo Radiotelescope. It was a NSF initiative and it's responsibility. As the above article states, NASA does have it's Goldstone Observatory. A new Klystron has ben installed and this is currently operational. The dish is much smaller than Arecibo at 70m. There are similar ones in some other countries who are in the NASA DSN (Deep Space Network) tracking satellites etc - eg Australia.The Goldstone radar has a higher resolution but  Arecibo’s more powerful radar has a greater range, allowing it to observe more distant objects. That's why the scientific community isn't happy.Hopefully, given time they will organise funding. The current technology is not one large monolithic dish, but an array of smaller dishes - hence much easier to install and maintain.</blockquote>

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