February 2016
Nuclear Flashlamps in Space
... visible light, which is mostly absorbed. Megawatt-level radar transmitters are used regularly at the Goldstone and Arecibo observatories to investigate Solar System objects at multiple-AU distances, still far less power than a one megaton nuclear...
September 2017
Science searches for cosmic company
..., this effort was killed by the US Congress a year after observations began, ostensibly for reasons of economy. The Arecibo Observatory radio telescope in Puerto Rico has been used for SETI work many times. Since then, experiments...
05 January 2017
Astronomers pinpoint location of mysterious fast radio bursts
.... Although there are now 18 known FRBs, one FRB named FRB 121102, discovered in November 2012 at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, has recurred numerous times. By switching from a single dish telescope to the Karl G. Jansky Very...
10 March 2017
New interplanetary radar technique spots "lost" lunar spacecraft
... still had the shape and alignment that we expected." Follow-up observations were also conducted with the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, which has the most powerful astronomical radar system on Earth, to help track the spacecraft...
