#ARECIBO TELESCOPE MOVIE MOVIE#

#ARECIBO TELESCOPE MOVIE MOVIE#

The telescopes scale and setting also led it to a life onscreen: It starred in the 1995 James Bond film 'GoldenEye' and the 1997 movie 'Contact,' starring Jodie Foster. The telescope boasts a 1,000-foot-wide (305-meter-wide) dish featured in the Jodie Foster film “Contact” and the James Bond movie “GoldenEye” and had been operating for 57 years. The only other radio telescope that equals Arecibos former power is Chinas Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST). 6, one of the telescope’s main steel cables snapped, causing further damage and leading officials to warn that the entire structure could collapse. An auxiliary cable broke in August and tore a 100-foot hole in the reflector dish and damaged the dome above it. And then rocks from that tower, Brum said, pointing up a nearby hill. Credit: Daniel Leonard Christiano Brum was there when it collapsed. In October 2022, the National Science Foundation announced that it would not be rebuilt. The independent, federally funded agency said it’s too dangerous to keep operating the single dish radio telescope - one of the world’s largest - given the significant damage it recently sustained. Puerto Rico’s famous Arecibo Telescope collapsed in December 2020. SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO > The National Science Foundation announced today that it will close the huge telescope at the renowned Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico in a blow to scientists worldwide who depend on it to search for planets, asteroids and extraterrestrial life.

Arecibo telescope movie