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Inside China Tech: FAST keeps big eye on space after Arecibo collapse
Hello, this is Bien Perez from the South China Morning Post’s Technology desk, with a wrap of our leading stories this week.Puerto Rico’s massive space telescope, the Arecibo Observatory, has ended 57 years of astronomical discoveries after sustaining severe damage since August of this year. The 900-tonne instrument platform of the telescope, which was featured in the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye starring Pierce Brosnan, collapsed on Tuesday.That has left China’s Five-hundred-metre Aperture…