How Beaufort Sea oil exploration could affect NASA’s rocket research in Alaska
The space agency regularly launches research rockets to monitor space weather — and sometimes those rockets fall into the Beaufort Sea.
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management recently announced plans to proceed with a 2019 auction of rights to drill oil in the Beaufort Sea, despite ongoing legal challenges to the lease sale. But an unlikely government agency is raising questions about the safety of this plan.
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