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Death of alien-hunting Arecibo Telescope traced to cable issues 3 years earlier, 'alarming' report finds

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National Academy of Sciences , Engineering, and Medicine report finds "alarming" lack of documented concern about telescope's safety and stability after it was damaged by Hurricane Maria in 2017 .

Report: Failure of the cables that ultimately snapped could be traced to the sockets that held the cables in place.

The Arecibo Observatory is a National Science Foundation facility in Puerto Rico .

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