WASHINGTON >> The U.S. Air Force has suspended plans it had proposed with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to test hypersonic rocket cargo ...

The suspension came after Reuters reported that biologists and experts said the project would harm many seabirds that nest at ...

WASHINGTON >> The U.S. Air Force has suspended plans it had proposed with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to test hypersonic rocket cargo ...

Johnston Atoll, an unincorporated US territory and Pacific island wildlife refuge with a complicated military history, is no longer slated to become a SpaceX reusable rocket test site. The Department ...

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 ...

Biologists and conservationists earlier raised concerns that rocket landings could severely disrupt nesting grounds for 14 ...

A great frigatebird chick scolds neighboring seabirds as they fly past its nest on Johnston Island, within the Johnston Atoll ...

The US Air Force has halted its hypersonic rocket cargo project with SpaceX due to environmental concerns. Scientists and ...

The U.S. military is suspending its efforts to secure a small Pacific island as the test landing site for a new program using ...

The military had been looking at a remote atoll in the Pacific Ocean as a location to land cargo-carrying rockets.

The U.S. Air Force has halted plans to test hypersonic rocket cargo deliveries from a remote Pacific atoll using Elon Musk’s ...