Watch the video of the Arecibo Radio Astronomical Observatory

It was over in a few seconds… Arecibo was the largest single-camera radio telescope in the world, the diameter of his parabola reached 305 meters. The first observations were made in 1963. Almost 53 years was the largest in the world. In year 2016 it was overtaken by the Chinese FAST radio telescope. After the recent damage came massive destruction, which took away any hopes of its restoration. It resonated among radio amateurs EME operation KP4AO, which made it possible with extremely simple equipment to realize connections by reflection from the lunar surface.