[CPEO-MEF] Air Force suspends plan to land cargo rockets on remote Pacific [Johnston] atoll

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Air Force suspends plan to land cargo rockets on remote Pacific atoll 

By WYATT OLSON 
STARS AND STRIPES 
July 3, 2025

The Department of the Air Force has suspended plans to use an isolated Pacific island as a test site for landing rockets as it considers alternative sites. 

The service had chosen Johnston Atoll, an unincorporated U.S. territory about 700 nautical miles southwest of Honolulu, for testing a program using rockets to rapidly deliver tons of cargo around the globe. 

The Air Force had announced in the Federal Register in March that it was undertaking an environmental assessment for the construction of two rocket landing pads on the atoll.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2025-07-02/johnson-atoll-rocket-air-force-18319741.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)




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