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Johnston Atoll, an unincorporated US territory and Pacific island wildlife refuge with a complicated military history, is no ...
WASHINGTON >> The U.S. Air Force has suspended plans it had proposed with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to test hypersonic rocket cargo ...
A remote Pacific wildlife refuge, once targeted for SpaceX rocket testing, has been spared—at least for now—as the Air Force backs away from controversial plans amid mounting pressure from ...
The Department of the Air Force has suspended plans to use Johnston Atoll, an isolated Pacific island about 700 nautical ...
The United States Air Force has suspended a major test project that was being planned in collaboration with commercial space ...
The military had been looking at a remote atoll in the Pacific Ocean as a location to land cargo-carrying rockets.
A great frigatebird chick scolds neighboring seabirds as they fly past its nest on Johnston Island, within the Johnston Atoll ...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force has shelved a proposal to build two rocket landing pads on Johnston Atoll, a remote island in ...
The Center for Biological Diversity has filed suit against U.S. government agencies for failing to release public records on plans to land rockets at Johnston Atoll National Wildlife Refuge.
Toniolo said scientists don't really know how the pernicious ants got to Johnston Atoll. It's not an easy place to reach for animals. It's the only seabird habitat in over 570,000 square miles of ...
The Island, known as Johnston Atoll, is the nesting site of millions of seabirds of 14 different species, including red-footed boobies, brown noddies, wedge-tailed shearwaters, and masked boobies.