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by dylan604 546 days ago
What's been decommissioned for 20 years now? I'm not really sure where you get your information from, but it's clearly not correct.

Decommissioned Announced November 19, 2020 Collapsed December 1, 2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Telescope

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They were referring to Dwingeloo [1] in the Netherlands, the telescope used in this article, not Arecibo. It stopped officially operating as a radio telescope in 2000, and has since been used for a variety of astronomy and amateur radio projects.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwingeloo_Radio_Observatory