Editing SETI@home (section)

===Closure of Arecibo Observatory===

Until 2020, SETI@home procured its data from the [[Arecibo Observatory]] facility that was operated by the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center and administered by [[SRI International]].

The decreasing operating budget for the observatory has created a shortfall of funds which has not been made up from other sources such as private donors, [[NASA]], other foreign research institutions, nor private non-profit organizations such as SETI@home.

However, in the overall long-term views held by many involved with the SETI project, any usable radio telescope could take over from Arecibo (which completely collapsed in December 2020),<ref name="guardian collapsed">{{cite news|date=1 December 2020|title=Giant Arecibo radio telescope collapses in Puerto Rico|work=[[The Guardian]]|agency=[[Associated Press]]|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/01/arecibo-radio-telescope-collapses-puerto-rico|access-date=1 December 2020|archive-date=December 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201205135942/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/01/arecibo-radio-telescope-collapses-puerto-rico|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="APNews1Dec2020">{{cite news |last1=Coto |first1=Danica |title=Huge Puerto Rico radio telescope, already damaged, collapses |url=https://apnews.com/article/technology-arecibo-observatory-puerto-rico-science--0da6abb251f455977bf0c752348e712e |access-date=5 December 2020 |work=AP NEWS |date=1 December 2020 |archive-date=April 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422013836/https://apnews.com/article/technology-arecibo-observatory-puerto-rico-science--0da6abb251f455977bf0c752348e712e |url-status=live }}</ref> as all the SETI systems are portable and relocatable.