Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico in the Caribbean is in danger of 'catastrophic failure' according to owners, the US National Science Foundation (NSF). Damage to Arecibo Observatory cannot be addressed without endangering the lives and safety of crew and staff, the NSF said. The observatory's vast reflector dish and a 900-ton structure hanging 450 feet above it is nestled in the humid forests of Arecibo, Puerto Rico. In 1998, Arecibo Observatory 'found' the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft on July 28, after it lost communications with European Space Agency and NASA. The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico is used as a location for the James Bond film 'GoldenEye', 1995Arecibo bounced a radar signal off SOHO, enabling its mission to be resumed, and SOHO continues to produce data to this day.

Source: The Nation November 20, 2020 12:09 UTC