Space Force Rocket-Testing Plans at Pacific Atoll Stir Controversy
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Hawaii conservation groups are voicing their opposition to plans by the U.S. Space Force to conduct cargo rocket testing at Johnston Atoll, a national wildlife refuge in the Pacific. The atoll, known as Kalama to Hawaiians, was used in earlier decades as a nuclear testing site but is now a refuge to seabirds, including one of the largest known nesting populations of red-tailed tropicbirds, more than 300 species of fish and a shallow coral reef. They say Kalama, about 800 miles southwest of
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