{"id":663773,"date":"2020-08-12T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=663773"},"modified":"2020-08-12T15:50:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T19:50:00","slug":"arecibo-observatory-reflector-dish-damaged-after-cable-snaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=663773","title":{"rendered":"Arecibo Observatory Reflector Dish Damaged after Cable Snaps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An auxiliary cable that helps to support a metal platform above the Arecibo Observatory radio telescope\u2019s reflector dish in Puerto Rico snapped in the early morning hours of August 10, causing a 100-foot gash in the reflector dish. Operations at the world-famous observatory, managed by the University of Central Florida (UCF) have been halted until repairs can be made. When the 3-inch cable fell&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/news\/view\/arecibo-observatory-reflector-dish-damaged-after-cable-snaps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Arecibo Observatory Reflector Dish Damaged after Cable Snaps<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ARRL&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An auxiliary cable that helps to support a metal platform above the Arecibo Observatory radio telescope\u2019s reflector dish in Puerto Rico snapped in the early morning hours of August 10,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ARRL"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=663773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=663773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=663773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=663773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}