The Maui County Council voted Wednesday to pass a resolution opposing a military proposal to build seven telescopes on the Haleakala volcano on the Hawaiian island of Maui.
The Air Force proposed the construction of a facility on the summit of Haleakala to track and catalog objects in space, according to the resolution. The proposed facility is called the Air Force Maui Optical Supercomputing Site Small Telescope Advanced Research Center and would consist of six telescopes enclosed in ground-mounted domes and one rooftop-mounted domed telescope.
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