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Re:Arecibo telescope, on the brink of collapse, will be dism... by fuoqi on Thursday November 19, 2020 @02:16PM (#25153219)
>what kind of design is going to replace it?

FAST [0] can be considered an Arecibo replacement, see the comparison chapter on the wiki page. Though it is built in China, so some may say that it's not a replacement for the US and the West science community.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-hundred-meter_Aperture_Sp...

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Re:Arecibo telescope, on the brink of collapse, will be dism... by JshWright on Thursday November 19, 2020 @02:22PM (#25153298)
FAST doesn't have some of the more interesting capabilities of Arecibo (most notably, the ability to perform radar astronomy).
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